The Cure Disintegration (3-CD)

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he album's tension between masochistic experiment and big pop still blazes."
"[T]his album of ultra-romantic synth dirges broke goths' cold hearts and became the Cure's biggest record." -- Grade: A
Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time"
Ranked #1 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989"
Billboard (p.33) - "The nuances that Robert Smith and David M. Allen lent the final production -- warm tones, balanced tempos, cascading guitars -- saved the album's comforting gloom from becoming innocuous."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] work of tragic, ineffable beauty....[With] a sound of frosty, slo-mo grandeur, constructed around boomy drumming, flanged guitar and magisterial synths."
Paste (magazine) - "DISINTEGRATION is less a collection of epically needy songs and more the distillation of a specific feeling..."
Paste (magazine) - "It's lush, mournful and gorgeous -- in other words, it's Robert Smith and company at their very best."
Pitchfork (Website) - "It's a single, grand, dense, continual, epic trip into core stuff the Cure did well."