REVIEW: The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure recently released their fourteenth studio album, Songs Of A Lost World via Fiction/Capitol Records.  After a long 16-year wait, the highly-anticipated new album is their best of the four albums they have released in the 2000’s.

Opening the album is the moody “Alone” that builds; slowly churning with ethereal yet uplifting synths until Robert Smith finally breaks in with his unmistakable voice and a devastating line, “This is the end of every song that we sing”.  The album holds to a slow pace and a dark atmosphere, although, the standout single, “A Fragile Thing”, is more in line with classic Cure, beaming with a bright and memorable chorus.  Another standout “Drone:Nodrone” is driven by a funky danceable beat and heavy fuzzed-out bass line alongside jabbing piano and noisy guitar squeals.  Closing out the 8-song album is the foreboding and aptly-titled, “End Song”, though I hope to hear more from The Cure in the near future.      

It’s amazing that nearly 50 years in, The Cure remains timeless and true with a new album – Songs Of A Lost World - that holds up to their storied discography.     

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Listen to “A Fragile Thing” here: