To celebrate 40 years since its initial release, the Cure has decided to offer up a limited-edition, picture disc re-issue of their second album. Considered one of the now legendary band's most significant sets, Seventeen Seconds delivered a string of distinctive "gloom-scapes" - think low-slung post-punk bass and tight drums overlaid with glistening guitar motifs, occasional synthesizer sounds and Robert Smith's distinctive vocals - that fired the starting gun on what would become the goth-rock movement. The album proved popular at the time and provided the band with their first top 40 hit, 'A Forest'; all these years on it still sounds like the perfect distillation of the Cure's now trademark sound.