The legendary British group The Cure, led by its charismatic leader Robert Smith, released its first album since 2008 on Friday, “Songs of a Lost World”, which has already received rave reviews.
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This is the 14th studio album from the group which marked the 1980s and 1990s with hits like “Boys Don’t Cry”, “Close To Me” and “Friday I’m In Love”.
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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 were extremely positive, such as that of the Guardian, which judged that “Songs of a lost world” was the group’s best album since “Disintegration” in 1989.
“The group is at its artistic peak: melancholy and moving, with a percussive sound that matches the emotional impact of the lyrics,” writes the daily.
In “Songs of a lost world”, Robert Smith sings of melancholy, speaks of death and mourning.
“Death is unfortunately more and more present every day. When we are younger, we romanticize it. Then it starts happening to your close family and friends. “It’s a different story then,” he told the BBC ahead of 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 band’s YouTube page.
“It lasts about 50 minutes and you end up somewhere different than where you started. I hope people will react,” added Robert Smith.
The Cure hadn’t released a record since 2008’s 4.13 Dream.
But the group, formed in 1976 in Crawley in Sussex (southern England) and which has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, continues to fill halls and stadiums wherever it performs.
In July 2018, The Cure celebrated its forty years of career during a major concert on the lawn of Hyde Park, in London in front of 65,000 people.
