The legendary British group The Cure, led by its charismatic leader, Robert Smith, released Friday 1is November his first album since 2008, Songs of a Lost Worldreceived by particularly laudatory reviews from the international musical and general press.
This is the 14the studio album from the group which marked the 1980s and 1990s with hits like « Boys Don’t Cry », « Close to Me » or « Friday I’m in Love ». The head of the group, Robert Smith, is 65 years old but maintains his unique style, tousled hair, smokey eyes and red lipstick.
The first reviews are extremely positive, like that of the British daily Guardianwhich awards it five stars and judges that Songs of a Lost World is the band's best album since Disintegrationin 1989. “The band is at their artistic peak: melancholic and moving, with a hard-hitting sound that matches the emotional impact of the lyrics”writes the daily.
In its review, the Associated Press also hails a marker in the career of a group almost fifty years old. The album “do not try to reissue Friday I’m in Love or In Between Days. This is a huge step forward. This is The Cure's best album since Disintegration. Hopefully there will be more”s'enthusiasm AP.
Melancholy, death and mourning
Songs of a Lost Worldall the more anticipated since its release was postponed several times, was written by Robert Smith while he was mourning the loss of several members of his family. He « is the triumphant apocalyptic epic that it was intended to be, certainly the best of the Cure since DisintegrationSmith reaches into the cobwebbed depths of his heart, sinking into adult loss and grief”greets the magazine Rolling Stones.
In fact, Robert Smith sings of melancholy, death and mourning, a universe not totally foreign to the gothic universe of The Cure. “Unfortunately, death is becoming more and more present every day. When we are younger, we romanticize it. Then it starts happening to your close family and friends. Then it's another story.”he told the BBC before the album's release. The album is “sequenced in such a way that it takes you somewhere”he said in an interview posted on the group's YouTube page. This first album in sixteen years is “gothic and magnificent proof that no one does it better [que The Cure] in matters of suffering »confirms The Independent.
The Cure hadn't released a record since 4.13 Dreamin 2008. But the group, formed in 1976 in Crawley, Sussex (southern England), and which has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, continues to fill halls and stadiums wherever it happens.
Less euphoric, Pitchfork nevertheless concludes that “the best compliment one can pay to Songs of a Lost World is that it already seems inevitable, a work of wisdom and grace that has been extending naturally since the moment the Cure took up their instruments in a church hall all those years ago.”.
