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Release date: 29-08-2020 (originally released in 1980)

2020 EU reissue First time on picture discfor this Record Store Day exclusive contains a download voucher'- Including " A Forest", Seventeen Seconds is the 2nd album from the influential English rock outfit, The Cure. The album introduced the darker, emotionally weighted sound for which the band would become renowned in large part due to the evolution of Robert Smith's songwriting and a line-up change that saw bassist Michael Dempsey replaced by Simon Gallup as well as the addition of keyboardist Mathieu Hartley.

Tracks:
A1 A Reflection
A2 Play For Today
A3 Secrets
A4 In Your House
A5 Three

B1 The Final Sound
B2 A Forest
B3 M
B4 A Night
B5 Seventeen Seconds

At the outset The Cure played jagged edgy pop songs before slowly evolving into a more textured outfit
As one of the bands that laid the seeds for Goth Rock the group created towering layers of guitars and synthesizers yet by the time Goth caught on in the mid80s The Cure had already moved on from the genre

Seventeen Seconds was recorded and mixed in seven days on a budget of between 2000 and 3000 which resulted in the band working 16 or 17 hours a day to complete the album
From short instrumental pieces to robotic pop Seventeen Seconds is where The Cure shed all the outside input and became their own band