The Cure: Torn Down 2×12″

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Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018serves as the sequel toThe Cure’s1990 remix album,Mixed Up. By choosing favorite songs rather than the usual singles, one ofRobert Smith’sobjectives was to illustrate the variety of theCurecatalogue, and by October of 2017 working on songs in chronological release order, he had remixed entirely the 16 songs that appear onTorn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018. For theTorn Downcover, Smith decided on a self-portrait painted in oils during the summer of 1990 which was originally intended as the sleeve forMixed Up. He choseTorn Downas the title inspired by the way he had “torn down” “Never Enough,” stripping the song back to resemble his original 1990 PhaseAGE demo. “I felt it was a good way to bring the project back full circle…in aMixed Upkind of way,” he says.Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018has beenhalf speed mastered by Robert Smith and Tim Youngat Metropolis Studios, London and is pressed on180g double vinyl.