The Cure "Seventeen Seconds" (2016 Reissue) 2023-04-07 Ek helped the band bring

Ek helped the band bring their signature sound to new heights

In collaboration with composer John DuPrez

Nine days is all it took for the three teenages Ben Gillies

Entitled Disease

The Cure "Seventeen Seconds" (2016 Reissue) 2023-04-07 Ek helped the band bringThe second cure album from 1980. 'seventeen seconds' was everything the title suggested. intense. dense. bleak. it is not an album for the faint at heart. the addition of perennial favourite simon gallup on bass and the short lived but effective mathleu hartley on keyboards expanded the cure's previously sparse sound, adding layers of texture that complemented smith's longer, less accessible songs. while 'play for today' hearkens back to the bands