Songs of a Lost World
Sixteen years after their last album, Robert Smith & co. return at their own glacial pace. Sounding regal, weary, and deliciously slow, they grapple with mortality and doubt as only they could.
The Cure is still firing on all cylinders 16 years after their last full-length album.
For illustrative purposes, Songs Of A Lost World is The Cure’s finest work since Thatcher was in power.
The NME review of The Cure's long-awaited first album in 16 years, 'Songs Of A Lost World' – dealing in death but with flowers on the grave
All these years later, rock’s foremost goth can still tap into teenage intensity on ‘Songs of a Lost World’
Perennial gloomsters The Cure are back to their majestic, melancholy best on Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years.
Sometimes, fans can wait so long for something that when it's finally in their hands - or ears, in this case - they are filled with a sense of disbelief.
Out this week on Fiction, The Cure’s first album in 16 years presents an audaciously bleak, beautiful journey towards the great unknown...
The band’s first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form – with the exception of one out-and-out pop banger
The Cure’s ‘Songs of a Lost World’ doesn’t feel overworked, and largely sounds like a band playing live in a room.
Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure album review by Jarrett Edmund for Northern Transmissions. The album is out today via Fiction/Capitol
The band are at an artistic peak on their first album in 16 years: movingly melancholic, with a punchy sound to match the lyrics’ emotional impact
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World review: This is the end of every song we sing.
Robert Smith transmutes grief, anxiety, anger and self-doubt in this exhilarating album. Plus: Willie Nelson and Tyler the Creator
Robert Smith is at the height of his melancholic powers on The Cure’s first album since 2008
Could melancholia be an elixir of creative youth? Or is it that sad people were never really that youthful, so age suits them? Certainly it seems that there was something in the water for so many of the foundational 80s indie bands who dealt in sadness, pain and existential angst that makes longevity suit them: The Jesus & Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Ride, Slowdive just for starters have all somehow ambled into the 2020s on the creative form of their lives.
The Cure's 14th album Songs Of A Lost World is a bleak yet energised record, 16 years on from their last studio release