Bloodflowers
The Cure's 2000 album, held back for the new millennium.
Bloodflowers is the Cure's eleventh studio album. It came out first in Japan on 2 February 2000, then in the UK and Europe on 14 February and in the US a day later, on Fiction and Polydor. It was finished by May 1999, but the label wanted to wait until after the millennium.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- the Cure
- Released
- 2 February 2000
- Studio
- St Catherine's Court (Bath, England); RAK (London)
- Genre
- Gothic rock
- indie rock
- folk rock
- Label
- Fiction; Polydor
- Producer
- Robert Smith; Paul Corkett
Lore & Background
Robert Smith steered the sound and mood far more tightly than on Wild Mood Swings; the one song with direct input from another member was Simon Gallup's "The Last Day of Summer". The sessions were tense, and Smith ended up recording the vocals on his own. He also wanted a shorter record than Wild Mood Swings, which ran over an hour, and dropped demo-stage songs that he felt sounded too shallow.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out of This World | 6:44 |
| 2 | Watching Me Fall | 11:13 |
| 3 | Where the Birds Always Sing | 5:44 |
| 4 | Maybe Someday | 5:04 |
| 5 | Coming Up (only on vinyl and Australian, Japanese, Colombian CD editions) | 6:27 |
| 6 | The Last Day of Summer | 5:36 |
| 7 | There Is No If... | 3:44 |
| 8 | The Loudest Sound | 5:09 |
| 9 | 39 | 7:20 |
| 10 | Bloodflowers | 7:31 |
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