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Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by the English rock band the Cure, released on 6 May 1996 by Fiction Records. The album charted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart, staying on the chart for six weeks, and number 12 on the US Billboard 200. However, the album was the lowest-selling Cure album in 12 years, and it marked the beginning of a downward trend in the Cure's future album sales.
Four singles were released from the album, the first being "The 13th", released in 22 April 1996, followed by "Mint Car" released on 17 June, "Strange Attraction" released in United States on 8 October and "Gone!" released in Europe on 2 December 1996.
The album saw the band explore various styles, similar to their double album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987), incorporating jangle pop with "Mint Car" and "Return", jazz with "Gone!" and mariachi with "The 13th". Robert Smith said the album title came from the fact that "Lyrically and musically, we cover more stuff than we have done in the past." The album exhibits jarring track placements, which contribute to the erratic and eclectic nature of the material, from lighter poppier songs to introspective, darker material, often paired next to one another, which NME described as, "rather like a compilation album, with all the disjointedness that implies".
