... and I have to say that the record thus far doesn't strike me as the same kind of doomy gloom as the other two albums in the "trilogy," Pornography and Disintegration. Those two albums are like bookends. Bloodflowers is more Hendrix-inspired hard rock than goth.
Hints of Red Hot Chili Peppers?
I've never really been able to get into their post-Disintegration style.
I mean Smith's guitar work is always excellent, but it seems to me the instrumental parts are composed of thin remnants of the traditional Cure style heavily drenched in mainstream rock influences.
The lyrics also tend to be more pensive than angsty or manic. Their newer songs would neither make me want to commit suicide nor help see my way through a suicidal depression. They merely express truths I already know, which makes them sound cliched to me.
The overall impression I get is that they ran out of material around 20 years ago.
Maybe I'm too old to be a Cure freak anymore.
The editing quality is a bit uneven in places, but this is a pretty decent short documentary overall.
What they say about Lol Tolhurst's contributions to the band, or lack thereof, confirms the impression I got from watching the concert film The Cure in Orange.