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Unlike much of the Cure’s output between the mid-1990s and 2008, Songs of a Lost World is textured and well-balanced, achieving a cinematic wall of sound worthy of comparison to 1989’s Disintegration. Just shy of 50 minutes, it’s also the band’s first studio album in 16 years that isn’t excessively long—a welcome change for a group that, while it excelled at taught minimalism early in its career, has tended toward rock excess ever since.

Songs of a Lost World, much of which was originally recorded back in 2019, finds the Cure not only avoiding past mistakes, but also the pitfalls that can befall releases with such a protracted development. The album doesn’t feel overworked, and largely sounds like a band playing live in a room. You wouldn’t know to listen to it that some of the music initially accompanied different lyrics or that Simon Gallup re-recorded...

The Cure celebrated the arrival of their long-awaited and much-acclaimed new album Songs of a Lost World on Friday with a release-night, livestreamed London concert.

The three-hour concert, coming on the heels of a BBC gig two nights before, featured Robert Smith and company performing the new LP in order and in its entirety, including the live debut of album tracks “War Song,” “Drone:Nodrone,” and “All I Ever Wanted.”

The rest of the setlist included hits and fan favorites from the band’s extensive catalog, as well as a section...

The Cure celebrated their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a marathon three-hour record release show at London’s Troxy that was also streamed live online and is available to replay in full below.

The evening began with a full performance of Songs of a Lost World, the band’s newly released first album in 16 years. From there, Robert Smith and co. played a set of classic hits and fan favorites, including tracks like “Plainsong,” “Pictures of You,” Lovesong,” “Fascination Street,” “Just Like Heaven,” and “Disintegration.”

The Cure then treated fans to a surprise five-song mini set of songs from their 1980 sophomore album, Seventeen Seconds, in celebration of its 45th anniversary, before closing the night with an encore that included “Lullaby,” “Friday I’m in Love,” and “Boys Don’t Cry.” All told, The Cure played a total of 31 songs over the course of the three-hour set.

Following a...

The Cure have finally returned with a new album: Songs of a Lost World, the group’s first new release in 16 years, is out today via Fiction/Capitol Records.

Though it was formally announced back in September along with lead single “Alone” (which we named Song of the Week upon release), The Cure have been gearing up for Songs of a Lost World for quite a while. Frontman Robert Smith revealed to NME that their new album was titled Songs of a Lost World back in 2022, and despite not sharing any of its songs, they even embarked on the “Shows of a Lost World” tour in 2022-2023.

During that tour, The Cure debuted several new songs that would appear on the album, including “Alone,” “Endsong,” “And Nothing Is Forever,” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye” — the latter two being included on the band’s recent 12-inch eco-vinyl single, Novembre – Live...

The words “long awaited” don’t begin to do justice to the new Cure album. Songs of a Lost World is an album that’s been promised, rumored, dangled, teased, longed for, despaired of, imagined. Cure fans have spent 16 years lighting candles and praying for this one, as Robert Smith has kept swearing he’s thiiiiiis close to being finished. The new tunes blew everyone away on the Cure’s marathon world tour, in 33 countries, with nobody complaining the material needed work. Yet he’s kept fine-tuning in the studio,...