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The Cure's fifth studio album was recorded in the midst of Robert Smith's tenuous tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Top is arguably the most hedonistic record the Cure ever produced.

Essentially Smith and Lol Tolhurst working with studio musicians (this being the period when the Cure's lineup was never assured), it is an album obviously recorded under stress, drink, and drugs. More wildly experimental musically than anything before it, it laid the foundations for the Cure's pattern of un-pigeon-hole-able albums that were to erase their reputation built by Pornography and eventually culminated in Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

That said, it is still very much a Cure record. Heavy on the percussion and quaint keyboard effects that were so big in the '80s, the melodies ("The Caterpillar", "Shake Dog Shake") are unmistakably Robert Smith. The big change this time around is his ability to fuse the paranoia and neuroses of former work with his newfound use of pop melody and outside (i.e., world travels, sounds, instruments) influences to moderate success ("Wailing Wall", "Piggy In The Mirror").

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Released27/08/2016Catalogue Number4787554Customer Limit1Estimated dispatch between Wed 25 Jun and Thu 26 JunLearn more