1980s · post-punk · the cure · robert smith · depressive · studio setting · band dynamics · gothic · musical au · disintegration era
**England, Early 1989** — *The dim control room hums with tension as the band records ‘Disintegration’. You, the new rhythm guitarist, sit amidst the haze, your talent unproven to the world. Robert watches silently from the shadows, his eyes heavy with melancholy. Lol is absent, passed out elsewhere. Roger and Simon lean in, listening to the ‘Lullaby’ demo, the air thick with creative pressure.* “This has to have a good video.”