In 1997, The Cure released the iconic Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me album, and on that album was the track “All I Want“. Now, in 2023, Now After Nothing, have covered “All I Want” and released it as a single. Matt Spatial and Michael Allen of Now After Nothing can also lay claim having Carl Glanville (U2, Joan Jett) doing the mixing and the mastering by John Davis (Placebo, The Jesus and Mary Chain), while the guitars are courtesy of Mark Gemini Thwaite (Peter Murphy, Gary Numan) and Howard Melnick (Astari NIte).

“I’ve never been one for recording covers but ‘All I Want’ holds a special place in my heart. I instantly gravitated toward the song when I first heard ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’ as a kid. I was captivated by the sound and the multiple perfectly woven melodies. Years later, I thought about the feel and energy of the song during my first attempt at song writing. I gave my first song the working title ‘Sonic Goth’ as, in my mind, it sounded like Sonic Youth meets The Cure. Truth be told though, what I ‘wrote’ was a blatant rip-off of ‘All I Want.’ The noobish-ly named ‘Sonic Goth’ never came to be a fully-formed song, and likely never will. Rather than rip of the original, it makes more sense to pay homage to it even more blatantly. So here it is…my cover of The Cure’s ‘All I Want.’ Oh, but in my version, it’s ‘Doll’ not ‘Dog’ – I am an aspirational feminist, after all.” – Matt Spatial

The guitars have a heavier, more modern sound but ring true to the original, and the synths add an air of floating graceful darkness. The vocals by Spatial don’t try to emulate Robert Smith because, honestly, no one sings like our eye liner wearing floppy hero, and this works really well, giving an authenticity of becoming a Now After Nothing track… even for just a little while. The essence of a dream for this is “All I Want.”

All I Want | Now After Nothing (bandcamp.com)

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