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Bloodflowers

by Cure

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of 455,625

8,694
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of 265,887

1,284
2000

of 38,671

95

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 2.7144 Bloodflowers is ranked overall as 2.7144 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.7548 Bloodflowers has an avg. critic score of 2.7548 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

One of the band's most affecting works. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Is this the last ever Cure album? Will Robert now toddle off into a Sussex seaside sunset armed with a solo album and an internet handbook, free at last from the corporate demands of the ever amalgamating giant record companie? If so, is 'Bloodflowers' a fitting testament to what at the end of the day is a great band with great songs and their own ...more

All Music Guide

Bloodflowers boasts all of the Cure's signatures: stately tempos, languid melodies, spacious arrangements, cavernous echoes, morose lyrics, keening vocals, long running times. If you want something transcendent, you're out of luck, since the album falls short of the mark, largely because it sounds too self-conscious. ...more

Rolling Stone

Smith is incapable of writing five bad songs in a row; even hopeless records (1992's Wish) sport some saving grace ("Friday I'm in Love"). But he can write four bad songs in a row, and Cure albums tend to leak filler like an attic spilling insulation. ...more

Rolling Stone

Face it: british goth-popsters the Cure have been running on fumes for ten years. Still, that's less than half of their life span, not bad for a band that was part of the late-Seventies post-punk fallout. ...more

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The Daily Vault Album Reviews

For some reason, the Cure have never gotten the critical recognition that they deserve as one of the most unique bands of the rock era. No one has ever really matched either the signature dark, brooding, layered sound of their most meandering...read the complete review at The Daily Vault Album Reviews

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Dot Music

Bloodflowers' stands as a glorious, if contradcitory, body of work. It won't win new converts but lapsed Cure fans will find it a thrilling and rewarding hour....read the complete review at Dot Music

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Q Magazine

Wisely, Bloodflowers is every crotchet a Cure album. True, there's no blatant hit single - one of those sudden shifts into gloriously barmy pop frenzy - but there's still ample compensation to be had......read the complete review at Q Magazine

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Puncture

Smith focuses on his own artistic/existential questions to the exclusion of all else, including the record's production, which is completely monotonous, and its pace, which falls somewhere between a plod and a...read the complete review at Puncture

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The A.V. Club

After more than 20 years of gloom, The Cure has been gradually acknowledged as one of the most influential forefathers of alternative rock: Many......read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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