The Cure says goodbye to the year live for the whole | Presents “Songs of a Lost ”, his new album

The Cure says goodbye to the year live for the whole | Presents “Songs of a Lost ”, his new album
The Cure says goodbye to the year live for the whole world | Presents “Songs of a Lost World”, his new album

The expectation is not surprising, considering that No less than 16 years have passed since their last studio album: That is why there are many who carefully follow the countdown until the November 1st, date set for the release of Songs of a Lost , new album by that legend of British called The Cure. For a month now, the group has been heating up that expectation with direct communications to their fans through email and an exclusive WhatsApp channel, but the appearance on Spotify of the first two singles, “A Fragile Thing” and “Alone”, that show them in top form.

In a new step of the campaign, this weekend The Cure announcedor a presentation show that will have an intimate nature: titled Show of a Lost World, The concert will take place on November 1st at the TroxyLondon room with capacity for only 3 thousand people which will put its tickets on sale on the 17th, allocating one pound from each ticket to the non-governmental organization War Child. For the rest of us, however, there will be an important consolation: The show will be broadcast worldwide for free through YouTube. Before ending the year, the group will have another appearance at the BBC Radio Theater in London (on October 30, for the program Radio 2 in Concert by Jo Whiley) and a session for journalist Huw Stephens’ BBC 6 Music show on the 31st.

Strictly speaking, the fourteenth studio album of the band led by the singer and guitarist Robert Smith It has been circling in the air for a long time. In September, the leader made it clear in an Instagram post: “I don’t think there was really any kind of official beginning for this album, because It’s been kind of drifting in and out of my life for an awfully long time. I mean if I regret anything it’s saying something about it in 2019, because I really shouldn’t have.” He continued: “We had just started creating it. I don’t know, there are several points where I thought ‘I think we’re going to make a new album’ and then it’s like the idea, like for various reasons, other things have happened and the idea was pushed back. So I’m not sure, but there have been definite points along the way where I thought ‘Ah, you know, this is actually the first song.’

Those statements from 2019 had triggered the presumption that new material was soon to be released, and in fact Smith slipped that most likely there were two disks instead of one. But the initial push slowed down, and in fact in 2021 there was an earthquake among fans when Simon Gallup announced on his networks that he had left the band. There was no official communication about it, and shortly after the musician deleted that post, a few days later he confirmed that it was still going on and there was no more talk about the topic: in November of last year, when The Cure shone at Primavera Sound from Parque Sarmiento, the historic bassist – whom many consider an essential part of the band – was on stage. That night, the band showed two of the songs that make up Songs of a Lost World: “And Nothing Is Forever” y “Alone”.

But this album by The Cure could be just the first stone. In a long interview with the British magazine New Musical Express, Smith detailed that the first songs for the album began to take shape in no less than 2010, and that there were updates in 2011, 2013 and 2014. “We recorded about 25 or 26 songs in 2019. We recorded three albums in 2019; that has always been the problem. “I have tried to complete three albums,” he said. “The key in the history of the band is if I am clear about which will be the opening song and which will be the closing song; knowing that I am already halfway there.” This abundance of material makes credible the version that The Cure will release two more albums during 2025: “We finished this one, the second one is practically finished too. The third one is a little more difficult but, well, if we make it that far… I just can’t help it.”

Produced by Robert Smith and Paul Corkett (who worked in Bloodflowers2000), Songs of a Lost World was recorded at the Rockfield studio in Wales by Gallup, the keyboardist Roger O’Donnell, the drummer Jason Cooper and the guitarist Reeves Gabrelsfamous former partner of David Bowie as a solo artist and in Tin Machine who joined the band in 2012. The guitarist and keyboardist Perry Bamonte, who was also in Buenos Aires, does not appear in the recording because he returned to the group for the tour that began in 2022. But this album also marks a rarity: It is the second in which Smith signs the songs alone, something that didn’t happen from afar The Head on the Door of 1985.

The first reviews that appeared in the United Kingdom were unanimous in celebration, with several journalists noting that the wait was worth it. The articles also pointed out something that warms the hearts of the most melancholic followers: The Cure’s new work has the same somber tone as their best works. In fact, Smith also left clues about the spirit of this album by posting a playlist titled The Cure Songs of a Darker World, in which you selected the 25 darkest songs in the band’s entire history. The cover of the new album itself leaves the same impression: designed by Andy Vella, it shows a head barely carved into a rock, a sculpture called Trifle realized by the Slovenian artist Janez Pirnat in 1975.

With everything ready for the release of the album, everything seems to indicate that in 2025, on the verge of celebrating 50 years of existence, The Cure will continue with the tour Shows of the Lost World, which brought a new controversy with the ticket companies and a public demand from Smith for Ticketmaster to somehow compensate users exposed to inexplicable overpricing and authorized resales. The sad does not take away the brave.

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