The Cure’s fourteenth album was one of the most anticipated albums of the year. For some critics, it is even one of the best of the English rock group. Sixteen years after their last studio album, The Cure released “Songs of a Lost World” on November 1st, full of melancholy splendors.
“Songs of a Lost World” is the fourteenth album by the cult English rock band The Cure. According to some critics, this disc is as good as “Boys Don’t Cry”, a little gem from 1979. The new disc from the legendary group was released on November 1st. The Cure had not released a new album in sixteen years, since the release of “4:13 Dream” in 2008.
On “Songs of a Lost World”, the group unveils eight tracks lasting six minutes on average, with long and majestic introductions. The title of the album sets the tone: temporal, melancholic, deep, committed, rooted, upbeat in the face of the torments of a harsh world that is not running smoothly.
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This new album reveals Robert Smith, leader of the group, out of step with the new rules of a particularly highly monitored world, from which it is difficult to escape, and which is no longer the one he knew. This record tells of loss but also of change, of love.
Death and mourning
“Songs of a Lost World” evokes the incessant cycle of war, loneliness, the passing of time and death, and mourning. “When we are younger, we romanticize it. Then death is more and more present,” said Robert Smith in an interview with the BBC.
He experienced death, with the unexpected death of his big brother. He dedicates a song from this new album to her. And even if finding the right words was difficult for Robert Smith, this title eases his mourning when he performs it on stage in a cathartic gesture.
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Robert Smith reportedly considered retiring. However, at 65 years old, including 45 years of career, he is still very present, as evidenced by this fourteenth album. And the singer does not intend to stop there, since around thirty songs have in fact been recorded and a fifteenth album should therefore soon see the light of day.
Radio subject Yves Zahno
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The Cure, “Songs of a Lost World” (Lost Music Limited/Universal Music). Paru le 1er novembre 2024.
