The Cure: Wish
Robert Sandall, Q, May 1992
IT'S LATE AT NIGHT; a couple of echoey electric guitars are plinking and howling at each other across a doom-laden backbeat; a frail and young-sounding voice has just announced, rather plaintively, that he "really doesn't know what I'm doing here".
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