Sixteen years waiting for a new album. It is said quickly, it is lived like an eternity. Songs Of A Lost World is published on November 1st worldwide, and the whole world should put itself at the feet of Robert Smith’s band, because making an album as great as this with such a legendary career behind it is not easy.
Legendary and long-lived: 48 years, 14 albums; with milestones like Disintegration either Pornography. Songs that are not songs, but blood that is injected into the veins and pumps the heart, like Lovesong, A Forest either Just Like Heaven.
Unlike other groups of their generation, plagued by laziness, fatigue, lack of ideas or tantrums, The Cure have never broken up. It has always been there, even if the hiatus between album and album was exhausting, as was this case.
Two years ago, the title of the album was already known and was expected imminently. “It’s almost finished,” said Robert Smith in May 2022. And the distance between almost and completely has taken him all this time. He regretted, he said recently, having said that. It has been two years of pressure. But few groups can afford to sustain that pressure, manage the times and the manners.
Songs Of A Lost World It is an album with only eight tracks but, contrary to the current trend, they are very long. Challenge the current anxiety of giving everything at the beginning of a song to retain the listener’s attention at least until the 31st second and thus monetize in the streaming. The themes are characterized by very long introductions (Alone, Endsong, And Nothing Is Forever, I Can Never Say Goodbye) which are like small steps to enter the water, quite the opposite of diving from a slide. It is an album that you cannot be impatient with and that goes, again, against 2024.
That is why the album is titled “songs from a lost world” and that it says, in And Nothing Is Forever: “I know that my world has grown old and that nothing lasts forever.” But after that verse, Robert Smith writes, in what would be a typically thecuriana: “It doesn’t really matter though, if we say we’ll be together.”
This is an album that signals the departure, the end of the group. It contains reflections on growing up and the importance of music. Robert Smith has already explained what his plan is for The Cure: to put an end to it in 2029, the year in which their first album, Three Imaginary Boys, He will be 50 years old and he will be 70. Until then, he hopes to release at least one more album, of which he has once again said that he is “almost ready.” But that adverb sounds recklessly familiar.
Following his plans, the continuation of Songs Of A Lost World It would be published in 2025. Until then, concerts will be scarce, since he only wants to give one this year to present the album and another right after New Year’s. Initially, he had planned to play summer festivals next year but has changed his mind and there will be no tour until the fall of 2025. He also wants to make a documentary, but there are many plans and Smith gets overwhelmed quite easily.
The Cure have managed to make the release date of an album a special event again, covering November 1 with expectation and particular events, such as an interview the day before on the BBC along with a concert held in their studios for the program 6 Music Session (recorded in black and white at the group’s request) and the broadcast of a concert from London’s Troxy venue on Friday at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. PDT). Furthermore, since Robert Smith was able to regain control of his career and not depend on any record company, ten years ago, he has shown off that freedom, managing the rhythms and imposing his criteria. It has been ten years in which the group has dedicated itself to playing a lot and, according to Smith in the interview he published on his official channel, they have seemed like the ten best years of his musical career.
Another consequence of this control is that Robert Smith has led a battle against economic abuses in the music industry, especially against Ticketmaster. Until the moment he recently began to study how the music industry works, he was unaware of many of these abuses. He has lowered the prices of his concerts and has prohibited dynamically priced tickets from being sold (they go up if there is a high demand). As he explained, they have narrowed their profit margins to a minimum and, even so, they continue to make a lot of money. Therefore, it is possible.
The Cure Tour Euro 22 tour took the group to 22 countries and 44 dates that year. Two of them, Barcelona and Madrid in the month of November. During the live performances some of the many songs composed by Robert Smith came to life and have patiently waited their turn to be pressed on record. Alone, Endsong, And Nothing Is Forever and A Fragile Thing we already knew them. The album is completed with four more.
Their titles are: Warsong, Drone/nodrone, I Can Never Say Goodbye and All I Ever Am. Warsong It is a strident and uncomfortable song that stirs the guts and talks about the war drive. Drone/nodrone is another harsh song that is, like almost the entire album, about getting old. In I Can Never Say Goodbyeequipped with a beautiful piano, addresses the death of her older brother and in the very long and powerful All I Ever Am, Robert Smith doubts, at 65 years old, who he really is.
Songs Of A Lost World It’s not a pop album. At this point, fans of Boys Don’t Cry They should know that those times, logically, will not return. This is a giant, overwhelming, dark, difficult, melancholic, welcoming, deep and captivating album that is not background music or for a television commercial. It is an album to learn to live and die.
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