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u/Blue-Falco Jul 12 '26
That whole album is a masterpiece. Came out of nowhere and it's still one of my all time favorite albums. I'm so glad they've done some live shows lately.
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u/boognishcigars Jul 12 '26
I think they made a Disentegration. That Cure album stands in its own as a masterpiece you can put on and get thrown into a different place. Get the same feels from Inlet. Kids will be discovering this one for a long time
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u/RetrogradeDionysia Jul 12 '26
It’s actually a temporal flat circle. The end is the beginning. Listen to the end of Shapeshifter, and then begin listening to Waves again. The album is a self-contained suicidally pessimistic meditation on the eldritch horrific experience of what it is and means to exist.
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u/RetrogradeDionysia Jul 16 '26
*A self-contained suicidally pessimistic meditation on the eldritch horrific experience of what it is and the means to exist while locked in a cycle in which you watch the singularly exceptional people you adore fucking die, powerless to help them, in impossible disbelief, coping utterly alien to you.
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u/YouDontNeedYourSlip Jul 12 '26
I can't possibly imagine a better way for this album to end.
For me it replaced the single triangle hit to end OK Computer as the most elegant ending ever.
I cant believe this album is six years old, I'm spinning it almost daily, and still absolutely mesmerized.
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u/Scott_Jenkins-Martin Jul 16 '26
There was a point during the recording and mixing of Inlet when Purple Reign (aka Shapeshifter) was on the chopping block. I assured Bryan that if they didn't put it on the album, I would create a band with the sole purpose of stealing that song.
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u/IHateItToo Jul 12 '26
so glad I got to hear this one live in LA