The Cure's Disintegration Listening Session with Andi

To celebrate the release of the 33⅓ seriesmbook release of The Cure's Disintegration, spend an evening with the author, Andi Harriman, who will play the seminal vinyl record in its entirety on Silence Please's hi-fi sound system. This is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself into the way Disintegration is meant to be heard: loud and in great detail. Come prepared to not only listen to the LP, but to experience it. The book begs the question: why should an album make you feel good? In 1989, The Cure's Robert Smith was going to turn thirty years old. His fears and anxieties of age-having not yet written his pinnacle album-caused Smith to embark on the band's undoing with Disintegration. The result was an LP drenched in melancholy sublime, a beautiful decree of breaking down to build anew. From the fame and notoriety of The Cure after their hit, “Just Like Heaven,” to the departure of the only other consistent band member, Lol Tolhurst, it's clear that the grisly spiral into the depths of pain is stamped throughout Disintegration. Copies of the book will be available for purchase on site. Andi Harriman is a Brooklyn-based DJ, boss of the party and label SYNTHICIDE, and a music journalist with an emphasis on all things 1980s. She is the author of the book Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Post-punk and Goth in the 1980s and has written for Rolling Stone, DJ Mag, Creem and The Village Voice.