4.
The Cure – Faith
A friend of mine recorded Faith on cassette for me. It’s one of the
greatest minimalist rock records ever. There’s so little going on, yet
it’s so dark and heavy and as bleak as anything. It was definitely an
early subconscious template for whatever Low was when we started. I
liked a lot of those early records. I remember going to get
specifically the UK version of Three Imaginary Boys, because it had
‘World War’ on it, which wasn’t included on the US version. Seventeen
Seconds is good too. But Faith for some reason is, like, the One.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Lord Spikeheart, Tom Ravenscroft
