“Club America” by The Cure

"Club America" sits on Wild Mood Swings, the Cure's tenth album, which Fiction released on 6 May 1996. Robert Smith wrote the words and sings it, the music is credited to Smith with Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper and Simon Gallup, and Louis Pavlou plays drums on the track. Steve Lyon engineered, and the mix went to Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade.

It wasn't among the album's four singles, but it belongs to a record built on lurches. Smith said the title came from the band covering more ground, in words and music, than ever before, and the album swerves between jangle pop, jazz and mariachi, parking light pop songs right beside darker, inward ones. NME compared the effect to a compilation, disjointedness included. It sold less than any Cure album in 12 years.

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