“Siamese Twins” by The Cure

"Siamese Twins" lurks deep inside Pornography, the Cure's fourth album, released on Fiction on 3 May 1982. Robert Smith wrote the words and built the music with bassist Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst, who plays drums and shares the keyboards with Smith, while Smith also takes the guitar. The band produced it with Phil Thornalley, new to their camp on this record, and Thornalley, Smith and Mike Nocito engineered.

The album was cut at RAK Studios between January and April 1982 with the group coming apart at the seams: drugs, rows, and Smith's depression bleeding straight into the songs. It closed the book on the Cure's early gloom; Gallup quit once it was released, and the band turned toward brighter new wave. "Siamese Twins" is that darkness at its most airless and claustrophobic.

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