Behind the Covers

The Cure

1 album cover in our archive

The Cure is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 1 album cover from the 1980s. Released on Fiction Records, the artwork sits in the rock, alternative tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering photography, portrait, abstract, surreal, conceptual. Below you'll find the full story behind each The Cure cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.

Disintegration by The Cure — album cover art

Disintegration (1989)

A face half-drowned in flowers and shadow, blurred to the edge of vanishing. The man behind The Cure's Disintegration never meant to be on its cover at all, yet there he is, seeping into the dark. Andy Vella built the whole image from Polaroids, projected and re-photographed until colour itself came apart.

Label
Fiction Records
Designer
Andy Vella (as Parched Art)
Photographer
Andy Vella (as Parched Art)
Genre
Rock, Alternative
Decade
1980s
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