Reviews
"It's a Single, Grand, Dense, Continual, Epic Trip Into Core Stuff the Cure Did Well.", "DISINTEGRATION is less a collection of epically needy songs and more the distillation of a specific feeling...", "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.", 3.5 Stars Out of 5 -- "The Album's Tension between Masochistic Experiment and Big Pop Still Blazes.", Ranked #1 in Cmj's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989in, 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.”, "This 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", "It’s lush, mournful and gorgeous -- in other words, it’s Robert Smith and company at their very best."
