Bloodflowers

Entertainment Weekly (2/18/00, p.86) - "...[a] poignant song cycle, on which introspective numbers speak of endings and departures with a resonant midlife melancholy - and an implicit sense of hope - making this one of the band's most affecting works." - Rating: A- Q (3/00, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[It's in] every crotchet a Cure album....in the simple truths of its clammy love songs and sweeping guitars of 'Maybe Someday' and, in particular, 'Watching Me Fall'..." Uncut (3/00, p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...This gently undulating homage to catatonia is something of a gem - crisply layered, quietly hypnotic, with a comfortingly Cure-ish middle eight of crazy-paving Les Dawson piano. Hooray! CMJ (2/7/00, p.3) - "...The Cure has become formidable once more...returning to form, basking in an introspective lyrical intensity that's mirrored by a brooding, gritty, guitar-driven dankness....[it] approaches the top of the group's heap of classic records..." Mojo (Publisher) (3/00, p.98) - "...one of our finest lyricists turns in a virtuoso performance....This is classic Cure. Three listens and you'll love it." NME (Magazine) (2/14/00, p.43) - 7 out of 10 - "...reopens [their career], replays it, and finds it worthy of reinvigoration....[It] is the dark, dense core of Smith's psyche, and a reminder that The Cure are at their fearsome best when creating soundscapes awash with uncertainty and dread..."