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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Geffen
Salesrank: 7438
Released: October 28, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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4:13 Dream Track Listing:
1. Underneath the Stars
2. Only One
3. Reasons Why
4. Freakshow
5. Sirensong
6. Real Snow White
7. Hungry Ghost
8. Switch
9. Perfect Boy
10. This. Here and Now. With You
11. Sleep When I'm Dead
12. Scream
13. It's Over
Editorial Review:
2008 release, the 13th studio longplayer from the legendary Goth rockers led by Robert Smith. Now down to a quartet (Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson and Jason Cooper), the band continue to musically evolve while dealing with subjects like relationships, the material world, politics and religion. The songs on 4:13 Dream are stripped down and 'in your face' while also sounding very much like The Cure. Includes the singles 'The Only One', 'Freakshow', 'Sleep When I'm Dead' and 'The Perfect Boy.'
Description of 4:13 Dream:
No one ever managed to nail aimless suburban alienation quite like the Cure, so sensitive yet so party-hearty, and 4:13 Dream, their thirteenth studio album and first in four years, lands in a musical landscape infested with their descendents. Yet Robert Smith and his old blokes can still show the young shavers how it’s done, even as they enter their fourth decade as a working band. The wistful yet ominous opener, "Underneath the Stars," seems to slip towards Pink Floyd’s "Wish You Were Here," making for a perfect exemplar of the Cure’s highly nuanced, yet undeniably commercial, English art-rock. "The Only One" seems to rework their own, twenty-year-old classic, "Just Like Heaven," while the febrile scratchy funk of "Switch" sounds peculiarly contemporary right now. Their woozy "Sirensong" simply refuses to settle into predictablility, and even the lumbering and gloomy "The Real Snow White" sounds ready for arenas rather than confined spaces. Enjoyable throughout and often effortlessly commercial, 4:13 Dream should depress and impress many young people, especially some musicians who may now realise just how far they have to go to catch up. --Steve Jelbert
4:13 Dream Reviews:
Needs to be soaked in. 
2009-11-07 - While not immediate as Disintegration or Wish there are lot's of great songs that sound familiar but not overly familiar .
The only songs that i don't care for are the opener "Underneath the Stars" which just never completely gells with too many chords and effects drowning out the sound where it's just waves of guitar effects and studio effects with no hooks or strong bassline to anchor the song.
I also don't care for The Scream which is too over the top angsty.
I feel like this album could have been better if they had a more sympathetic producer to there style of music while Keith Uddin has won lots of awards it's mostly for commercial pop music and some of the songs are over modulated which is an unfortunate trend.
The great thing about Disintegration was how grand it was but how much room there was inside the production to hear all the instruments and notes and effects whereas a song like Underneath the Stars sounds muddy and washed out to me.
Either way i think most hardcore Cure fans will like this.
To Date, there are 5 Cure albums needed in your collection... 
2009-09-26 - The best Cure albums to date (for me anyway) are: Disintegration, KIss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, The head on the Door, The Walk (EP) and Bloodflowers. Everything else I can do without. And nothing after Bloodflowers comes remotely close to being worthy of adding to this list.
Back to the 80s 
2009-06-08 - Has a classic sound to it and a very dreamy kind of sound... beautiful. At the same time, different.
Best album in years!
2009-05-06 - The Cure are a multifaceted gem of a band. They have such a diverse catalog that they attract various groups of fans with different tastes...as is evidenced by the wide variety of opinions about their last several albums. With that said, I already know some people will not agree with me, but I think this is the best album since "Wish". I did not care for "Bloodflowers" except for Maybe Someday (which is great). "The Cure" did not impress me either except for Taking Off, which I love. "Wild Mood Swings" had a couple of gems, but "4:13 Dream" has the most to offer since "Wish". Several of the songs harken back to the earlier style of my two favorite albums: "Kiss Me..." and "The Head on the Door". I hope The Cure create music for many more years to come, but if this happens to be one of their final albums...it's a great one to end out an amazing career. A very sincere thanks to an unparalleled band who could bring complex multilayered mood and emotion to each and every song.
Intolerable Mix 
2009-05-06 - I'm not going to make this a long-winded technical review. The Cure is my favorite band, and I was thrilled to get a new CD by them. But happiness quickly took a turn for disappointment when I listened to it. The songs, in my opinion, are very good. Unfortunately, I can't enjoy them because - as other reviewers have criticized - the mixing on this CD is incredibly poor. Muddy, dissonant, unbalanced. I think that (and I say this in all seriousness) I could have gotten a better result producing this on my home computer. I don't know what they were thinking releasing this CD as is.
