The Cure's greatest gift is texture. They manage to give their core sound - that familiar, brooding kind of rock - various textures that carry them through their occasional double album. "The Kiss" opens the album with a somewhat violent kind of distortion that leads directly into the ballad "The Catch," yet it never sounds unlike The Cure. Elsewhere, they adopt a glam-like stomp on "Why Can't I Be You?" and a sitar drenches "The Snake." There are songs driven by strings, and "Hot, Hot Hot!!!" shows that they can be kind of funky. It's not a consistently compelling set of songs, but it's an erratic double album that tries out various styles without ever abandoning that core Cure sound.
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