Seventeen Seconds

Seventeen Seconds
Studio album by the Cure
Released	18 April 1980[1]
Recorded	1979–1980
Studio	Morgan, London
Genre	Gothic rock post-punk
Length	35:40
Label	Fiction
Producer	Mike Hedges Robert Smith
The Cure chronology
Boys Don't Cry (1980) Seventeen Seconds (1980) Faith (1981)
Singles from Seventeen Seconds
"A Forest" Released: 28 March 1980

Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 18 April 1980 by Fiction Records. The album marked the first time frontman Robert Smith co-produced with Mike Hedges. After the departure of original bassist Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup became an official member along with keyboardist Matthieu Hartley. The single "A Forest" was the band's first entry in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.