Disintegration Songwriting Credits by The Cure

Disintegration was Robert Smith's deliberate return to the dense, melancholy atmosphere of The Cure's earlier gothic work, written largely around his own anxieties as he approached thirty. The music was credited collectively to the band while Smith wrote all the lyrics, and he co-produced the record with David M. Allen, the engineer who had shaped much of the group's prior studio sound. The result became the band's commercial peak, carried by the layered keyboards of tracks like Pictures of You and the lullaby imagery Smith built into the singles. It remains the album where his darker, more personal vision and the band's widescreen arrangements aligned most completely.