- alternative rock, rock, new wave, gothic rock
- 66 min
- 12 tracks
- Elektra
Wish is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Cure, released on 21 April 1992 by Fiction Records in the United Kingdom and Elektra Records in the United States. Wish was the most commercially successful album in the band's career, debuting at number one in the UK and number two in the US.
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Character
Character-led, spare, grave and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- Christgau's Consumer GuideC+
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- Los Angeles Times2/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork8.4/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Select5/5
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Tracks
- 1Open6:51
- 2High3:33
- 3Apart6:35
- 4From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea7:40
- 5Wendy Time5:11
- 6Doing the Unstuck4:22
- 7Friday I’m in Love3:34
- 8Trust5:30
- 9A Letter to Elise5:12
- 10Cut5:50
- 11To Wish Impossible Things4:41
- 12End6:47
12 tracks, 66 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Cure
- Label
- Elektra
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- CA
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