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(Visually Graded) New, Mint, Sealed  ** See pics **

** Rare, Hard-to-find **

The Cure – Faith

Label:
 Elektra – RPD1 60783
Format:
 Vinyl, LP, Album, Picture Disc, Reissue, Remastered, 12", 33rpm
Country:
 Czech Republic.
Released:
 Jun 12, 2021
Genre:
 Rock
Style:
 Post-Punk, New Wave

Tracklist

A1        The Holy Hour
A2        Primary
A3        Other Voices
A4        All Cats Are Grey
B1        The Funeral Party
B2        Doubt
B3        The Drowning Man
B4        Faith

Credits

    Bass – Simon Gallup
    Drums – Laurence Tolhurst
    Guitar, Keyboards, Voice – Robert Smith

Notes

Record Store Day 2021 drop 1 exclusive of 8000 copies world wide available for the first time on picture disc. This new pressing has been overseen by Robert Smith. Includes two stickers on the top right and middle right of the shrink wrap.

℗ & © 2021, 1981 Fiction Records Ltd., under exclusive license to Elektra Records, a Warner Music Group Company.

Made in Czech Republic.

- BIO - Faith is the third studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 14 April 1981 by Fiction Records. The album saw the band continuing in the gloomy vein of their previous album Seventeen Seconds (1980), which would conclude with their next album Pornography (1982).

 Faith divided critics upon release. Sounds reviewer John Gill wrote that while the more uptempo songs "Primary" and "Doubt" were reminiscent of the Cure's previous work, with a "sense of strong, haunting melody", the remainder of the album marked a stark departure for the band; he noted a "Neu!-ish sense of smudged melody, soft tones flowing around a languorous, groaning bass", and found that the band's new sound evoked 1960s acts such as Pink Floyd and the Doors.

 Gill remarked that "listening to Faith requires a personal act of involvement, the reward being a sense of belonging."Melody Maker deemed the record "impressive", praising its "richness and deceptive power". Writer Adam Sweeting described Faith as "a sophisticated exercise in atmosphere and production", adding, "It's gloomy but frequently majestic, never using brute force where auto-suggestion will do.

 You may not love it, but you'll become addicted to it."David Hepworth of Smash Hits said that "despite some rather stilted lyrics", the Cure "continue to develop one of the most individual and pleasing styles around." NME's review of the album, written by Ray Lowry, was accompanied by a picture of the band and a caption reading: "Gloomy? Gothic? Us?". Lowry wrote that the album "says absolutely nothing meaningful" and dismissed it as "just the modern face of Pink Floydism.

 "Record Mirror's Mike Nicholls found that "The Cure remain stuck in the hackneyed doom-mongering that should have died with Joy Division" and panned Faith as "hollow, shallow, pretentious, meaningless, self-important and bereft of any real heart or soul". -wikipedia

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(STILL SEALED) Sealed at factory and never opened. Disc is assumed to be undamaged and mint, but this cannot be proven until the album is actually opened and the disc examined.
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