Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 18 April 1980 by Fiction Records. The album marked the first time frontman Robert Smith co-produced with ...

The Cure’s penchant for squalling psych-rock ... After spending two albums as a faint outline shrouded in mist (Seventeen Seconds and 1981’s Faith), Smith seemed to leap from the murk on ...