This shift is attributed to Smith's frustration over the band's labelling as a predictable gothic rock band: "My reaction to all those people . " The Love Cats" became the band's first single to infiltrate the top ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at number seven. Three singles were released during 19 that were a significant divergence in style essentially, pop hits.
The Cure's second album Seventeen Seconds (1980) established it as a prominent gothic rock band, which would be followed up by Faith (1981), and Pornography (1982). Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it the "culmination of all the musical directions the Cure were pursuing over the course of the '80s". It was greeted with a warm critical reception before later being acclaimed, eventually being placed at number 116 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It remains the band's highest selling record to date, with more than four million copies sold worldwide. The album became the band's first commercial peak, charting at number three in the United Kingdom and at number 12 in the United States, and producing several hit singles including " Lovesong", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Following the completion of the mixing, founding member Lol Tolhurst was fired from the band. The band recorded the album at Hookend Recording Studios in Checkendon, Oxfordshire, with co-producer David M. This, coupled with a distaste for the group's newfound popularity, caused Smith to lapse back into the use of hallucinogenic drugs, the effects of which had a strong influence on the production of the album.
As he neared the age of 30, vocalist and guitarist Robert Smith had felt an increased pressure to follow up on the band's pop successes with a more enduring work. The record marks a return to the introspective gothic rock style the band had established in the early 1980s. Disintegration is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on by Fiction Records.
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