“Alt.End” by The Cure

"Alt.End" sits on The Cure, the self-titled 2004 album that moved Robert Smith's band to Geffen and put them in a room with Ross Robinson, a producer better known for wrangling Korn, Slipknot and At the Drive-In. Robinson and Smith produced it together, and Steve Evetts recorded it and mixed it with the two of them.

Smith sings and plays guitar alongside Perry Bamonte, Simon Gallup is on bass, Jason Cooper handles drums and percussion and Roger O'Donnell the keyboards; all five share the music credit, and the words are Smith's alone. Robinson had pushed him to write the lyrics first for once, so the band could play to the feeling in them, and the record as a whole comes out heavier than what came before: Cure heavy, as Smith put it, not nu-metal heavy. It was Bamonte's last studio album with the band before his death in 2025.

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