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 only in Europe |
