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  Type Album
  Artist The Cure
  Cover The Cure - Faithjpg
  Background orange
  Released September 1 1981
  Recorded
  Genre Post-punk
  Length 36:54
  Label A&M
  Producer The Cure ,<br> Mike Hedges
  Last Album '' Boys Don't Cry '' <br /> (1980)
  This Album '''''Faith''''' <br /> (1981)
  Next Album '' Pornography '' <br /> (1982)


''Faith'' is the third Album by British Alternative Rock band The Cure , released in 1981 (see 1981 In Music ).

The front cover of the album features a British Abbey in the fog.

Faith is considered a very bleak and hazy album. It is sometimes described as the "calm before the storm" of the group's next, darker, album, '' Pornography ''. One of the songs on the album, "The Drowning Man", is inspired by the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake .

The album is basically about lead singer Robert Smith 's lack of faith and his desire to find it.

''Faith'' was reissued in the UK on April 25 , 2005 (26th in the US) as part of Universal Music 's Deluxe Edition series. The new edition features a remastered version of the album, as well as the song " Carnage Visors " on disc one, while disc two contains demo and live tracks, as well as the non-album single " Charlotte Sometimes ". There also exists a one-CD version (with only the first disc but still remastered) that was released in late 2005 in Europe, and early 2006 in the US.


TRACK LISTING

All songs by Simon Gallup, Robert Smith and Laurence Tolhurst.


Original release


#"The Holy Hour" - 4:25
#" Primary " - 3:35
#"Other Voices" - 4:28
#"All Cats Are Grey" - 5:28
#"The Funeral Party" - 4:14
#"Doubt" - 3:11
#"The Drowning Man" - 4:50
#" Faith " - 6:43

(Cassette only, B Side)
#" Carnage Visors " - 27:29


2005 deluxe edition



Disc one


# "The Holy Hour" (4:25)
# "Primary" (3:35)
# "Other Voices" (4:28)
# "All Cats Are Grey" (5:28)
# "The Funeral Party" (4:14)
# "Doubt" (3:11)
# "The Drowning Man" (4:50)
# "Faith" (6:43)
# " Carnage Visors " (27:29)


Disc two (Rarities 1980-1981)


# "Faith (Robert Smith home demo)"
# "Doubt (Robert Smith home demo)"
# "Drowning (group home demo)"
# "The Holy Hour (group home demo)"
# "Primary (studio out-take)"
# "Going Home Time (studio out-take)"
# "The Violin Song (studio out-take)"
# "A Normal Story (studio out-take)"
# "All Cats Are Grey (live)"
# "The Funeral Party (live)"
# "Other Voices (live)"
# "The Drowning Man (live)"
# "Faith (live)"
# " Forever (live)"
# "Charlotte Sometimes (single)"


PERSONNEL



PRODUCTION

  • Producers: The Cure, Mike Hedges

  • Engineers: Mike Hedges, Dave Kemp

  • Assistant engineer: Martyn Webster



CHARTS

Singles - Billboard (North America)