That got me thinking, what other musical or thematically linked trilogies out there are there? Not necessarily the artists own interpretation of this term but yours. From «Seventeen Second» (melancholic) to «Pornography» (desperate, depressed) via «Faith» (sorrowful, abandoned, forsaken). It had been nine years since the release of their third album, 'World War III'. Both in theme, flow, musical textures and lyrical content they seem more interlinked than the «official» trilogy. SeptemAfter a long hiatus, in April 2020 with the world locked down amidst a global pandemic, MADINA LAKE suddenly unveiled a ferocious new single, 'Playing With Fire'. To me, on the other hand, the albums «Seventeen Seconds» (1980), «Faith»(1981) and «Pornography» always sounded more as a «musical trilogy» then the three Smith himself mentioned. Robert Smith famously pronounced «Pornography» (1982), «Disintegration» (1989) and «Bloodflowers» (2000) as a trilogy with the following words: «The albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers are inextricably linked in so many ways».
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