The Cure released a new album: here’s what it’s worth

The iconic rock band released this Friday Songs of a Lost Worldhis first album in 16 years, already praised by critics and several generations of fans.

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The Cure is one of those timeless groups as they have imbued the world of music with an inimitable touch. Like Joy Division, Nirvana, Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin, there is a magical ingredient in the music of the group led by Robert Smith that touches every generation, ranging from oldies to Gen-Z.

The Cure is now part of a form of pop culture that is discovered in middle school and that has been passed down for more than four decades.

An album out of nowhere

Songs of a Lost World is the 14th studio album from this group, which marked the 1980s and 1990s with hits like Boys Don’t Cry, A Forest or Friday I’m In Love. Initially associated with the new wave movement, The Cure has developed a sound of its own, with moods that are by turns melancholic, rock, pop, gothic and psychedelic. He produced a masterpiece in 1989 with the album Disintegration.

For the famous American magazine Rolling Stonethis record is even one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It would be none other than its spiritual sequel, since the British newspaper The Guardian even qualifies it as the group’s best album since the famous Disintegration released 35 years ago.

A hype that goes beyond even the notion of music criticism, since the opinions on social networks are made of the same wood: The Cure is back and it could be with one of the best albums of the year.

A journey through the night

If the group has had many phases during its career exploring various sounds, The Cure returned to its spleenetic and gothic essence with a melancholic and moving album whose title translates as Songs from a lost world.

With its guitar riffs and its ever-percussive rhythm, this compilation of eight tracks takes us on a journey along layers of synthesizers in various emotions. Guided by the inimitable voice of its singer, the album takes us between sadness and joy before ending with a ten-minute piece in the form of an epilogue entitled Endsong. A majestic piece which concludes this testament album where it is a question of inevitable old age and vanished hopes.

This comeback comes 16 years after the previous 4:13 Dream released in 2008. However, the band has never stopped performing concerts. The Cure has sold 30 million albums worldwide, as well as packed halls and stadiums wherever the group performs. In July 2018, the group celebrated its forty years of career during a major concert on the lawn of Hyde Park, in London in front of 65,000 people whose fervor is still intact. Now 65 years old, Robert Smith, the mastermind, maintains the same gothic and Burtonian style as when he was 17, with his tousled hair, his smokey eyes and his red lipstick.

A three-hour XXL concert

The group The Cure is known for satisfying its audience with long concerts. And for the opening of its new album, this November 1, the group played in the London venue of the Troxy. Three hours of concert in front of 3100 lucky people and a few VIPs, like members of other legendary groups, such as Mogwai, Radiohead or My Bloody Valentine. As well as stars, since the actor Perdo Pascal was seen enjoying himself on the balcony.

Performing the entirety of his new record, Robert Smith, faithful to his eternal look, then released with his musicians a tsunami of hits from his discography. A concert that ends with Boys Don’t Crythus completing a form of cycle, since this song was the one that inaugurated their first album Three Imaginary Boys in 1979.

The concert in its entirety:

Millions of fans can enjoy this unique event, because Friday’s inaugural concert is available for free on YouTube. The opportunity to listen to this marvel that is Songs of a Lost World on stage, but above all to remind you during the remaining two hours to what extent The Cure is above all forty years of instant hits that will never age.