The Cure - Songs of a Lost World (new album)

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First new album in 16 years, apparently out on November 1st.

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There's been a LOT of chat about this in another forum I frequent over the last few days, especially after fans started receiving embossed postcards upon which the only info was the title and date, as above. A poster has also appeared outside the pub where the group played their first ever gig which is tying in with speculation that the album is their last. However, it also seems that many of the new songs they've been playing live have themes of death and memory so it could just be that. Fans are wont to overinterpret, myself included.
 
Yeah in my head I thought they had confirmed this would be their last album, but I think I’ve just picked up on fan chatter.
 
Smith claimed to be working on this, an instrumental album and an album that was all one piece, although I think the latter was also said to be his solo album, which never appeared. Then there's 4:14 Scream and the songs from that. There's potentially a lot of material and, knowing the Cure, they're not going to bow out on a tight 40 minute single LP.
 
“Alone” is the first single



Album has 8 songs :D and is out November 1st
 
The song is great. But I could do with a radio edit :shy: the intro is too long.

His vocal sounds as good as ever though :o
 
funky said:
The song is great. But I could do with a radio edit :shy: the intro is too long.

His vocal sounds as good as ever though :o
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It's the first song on the album, they almost always have long instrumental intros, at least since Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.
 
It is dashed good, this. It's what I wanted The Cure to sound like in 2024 - themselves but powerful and strong. And yes, Smith is in good voice here.
 
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😭 (knew I wouldn't though, must have been FUCKTONS of applicants)

Now to try for Troxy on Thursday :side-eye:
 
I'm just listening to it. I'm going to do a load of MDMA this weekend and then hammer it on repeat on a comedown.
 
Eddie said:
So I've always had a casual (at best) interest in The Cure but I'm really into this new album.
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Same, I have Disintegration but otherwise haven't gone beyond the singles.

It was All I Ever Am on the NMF playlist this morning that really got my attention and made me listen to the album. It could slot right in with their eighties singles.

They really do love an extended intro though.
 
It’s all relative but this is much perkier than I was expecting (I’m ok with dour Cure too), I’m enjoying it.
 
This is genuinely ace. I was braced for a 3-4 good ones and the rest being fine but every song tells. I guess when you only have 8 of them, they need to but Smith's love of longer programmes has been a weakness so boiling it down to these 8 songs that work really well together and tell a story was a good move. Cracking stuff.
 
Currently watching The Cure at the BBC.

British popstars just spoke differently in the eighties didn't they? Those little clips of Robert Smith put me in mind of old Bananarama interviews.
 
Are they struggling for footage? Twenty minutes in and already two selections from their Glastonbury 2019 set (also on later tonight).
 
Hmm, I've historically struggled with the Cure tbh. I love many many individual songs ('In Between Days' might have my fave intro to any song ever) but haven't connected with any of the albums that I've listened to. Was hoping this might change things given that it's thematically very much in my 2024 wheelhouse but sadly it's not clicking. :( These sounds are mostly just washing over me without intended effect. I genuinely think there's something a bit off with the production here? All the instrumentation feels weirdly compressed, robbed of whatever vitality it should have. Like, the drums coming in on 'Endsong' should be a moment but it just feels like a continuation of a curiously-enervated, over-extended lament. I guess that might be the point, I dunno, but I'm not feeling it which sucks. Oh well, I'm glad that this is getting such a rapturous reception regardless. Alongside myself they're the only good eggs that have ever sprung from WEST SUSSEX (tho they're from Crawley which is hella ew and one does not claim it) and I always root for them. It's wild to me that Smith's voice hasn't changed since the 70s wtf.
 
I was watching the recentish live clips from last night and it did occur to me that his voice has definitely held up.

Played the album again this morning, very good. Drone:Nodrone completely works as a mid-album disruptor but I could do without the big guitar solo.
 
old spice said:
Hmm, I've historically struggled with the Cure tbh. I love many many individual songs ('In Between Days' might have my fave intro to any song ever) but haven't connected with any of the albums that I've listened to. Was hoping this might change things given that it's thematically very much in my 2024 wheelhouse but sadly it's not clicking. :( These sounds are mostly just washing over me without intended effect. I genuinely think there's something a bit off with the production here? All the instrumentation feels weirdly compressed, robbed of whatever vitality it should have. Like, the drums coming in on 'Endsong' should be a moment but it just feels like a continuation of a curiously-enervated, over-extended lament. I guess that might be the point, I dunno, but I'm not feeling it which sucks. Oh well, I'm glad that this is getting such a rapturous reception regardless. Alongside myself they're the only good eggs that have ever sprung from WEST SUSSEX (tho they're from Crawley which is hella ew and one does not claim it) and I always root for them. It's wild to me that Smith's voice hasn't changed since the 70s wtf.
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The mix of the album is quite odd in places but given that it's not a constant feature (ie A Fragile Thing has a much clearer mix), I'm assuming that everything is how Smith wanted it. It does feel like someone accidentally knocked the compressor up a couple of notches on the way to the mastering studio tho'.
 
That really is quite a triumphant figure for them. Shame I don't like it more.
 
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