Wish (reissue, 1992)
UNIVERSAL
8/10
THE trouble with a masterpiece like is that at some point you have to follow it up. Released on Robert Smith’s 33rd birthday – April 21, 1992 – turned out to be the perfect mix of light and shade. Any gloomier and The Cure would have been accused of milking the misery when there wasn’t much around – had been wildly successful, establishing them as a stadium act around the world, despite Smith’s best intentions – and they’d already let their hair down with 1990’s irreverent (and prescient) remix collection . Indeed, it was while recording ’s lead single “Never Enough”, slathered in Porl Thompson’s guitar,
