Which album by The Cure was the first to feature Jason Cooper?

The Cure album that first featured Jason Cooper was Wild Mood Swings.

Cooper joined The Cure in early 1995 after longtime drummer Boris Williams left the band. He had previously played with the London group My Life Story and answered an anonymous Melody Maker advertisement seeking a drummer. Wild Mood Swings, released in 1996, was his first Cure studio album.

The album is the band’s tenth studio release and includes songs such as “The 13th,” “Mint Car,” “Want,” and “Jupiter Crash.” Cooper was not the only drummer heard during its creation: several auditioning musicians played on tracks before Cooper fully settled into the role. That detail can cause confusion, but Wild Mood Swings remains the first album credited with Cooper as the band’s new drummer.

Cooper has remained The Cure’s drummer for decades. The album itself was recorded in England at St Catherine’s Court and Haremere Hall, and it marked a stylistic shift toward a more varied, sometimes playful sound than the band’s darker early records.