Album Review - The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me [Deluxe Edition]

Having finally achieved commercial success with The Head on the Door,
it would have been easy for The Cure simply to craft another effort
that followed the same, basic formula as its predecessor. Instead,
mastermind Robert Smith opted to take a more democratic approach to
recording, and the resulting outing Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me blossomed
into an expansive, 18-track, two-LP package that presented the full
range of The Cure's capabilities. For a group that sometimes seemed
schizophrenic as it swerved back and forth between heady pop and
darkly experimental textures, the endeavor proved to be a surprisingly
cohesive masterpiece. Because it was so dense with ideas, however, the
74-minute triumph always has fared better on vinyl than on CD, and its
latest incarnation -- which resurrects the driving rock of Hey You!
from extinction -- does little to change that notion.

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