Faith

Faith is the third album by British band The Cure, released in April 1981. Faith is generally a brooding, atmospheric, and sombre album, although it has a flash of anger in the form of the song "Doubt", and some edge in the driving single "Primary". It is often seen as the mid-point in a 'Dark Trilogy' that begins with Seventeen Seconds and ends with Pornography. One of the songs on the album, "The Drowning Man", is inspired by the Gormenghast no... more

Faith is the third album by British band The Cure, released in April 1981. Faith is generally a brooding, atmospheric, and sombre album, although it has a flash of anger in the form of the song "Doubt", and some edge in the driving single "Primary". It is often seen as the mid-point in a 'Dark Trilogy' that begins with Seventeen Seconds and ends with Pornography. One of the songs on the album, "The Drowning Man", is inspired by the Gormenghast novels of Mervyn Peake. It is the first album by The Cure to feature baritone guitar/six-string bass. The front cover, designed by future member Porl Thompson, is a picture of Bolton Abbey in the fog. The song "Carnage Visors" (an antonym of rose-coloured spectacles), originally available only on the long-play cassette release, is the soundtrack of Carnage Visors, a short film by Ric Gallup, Simon's brother. It was screened at the beginning of shows in place of a support band on the 1981 Picture Tour, and featured animation of several dolls in... less