The Cure Songs of a Lost World 180g LP

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Songs of a Lost World is the long-awaited 2024 album from The Cure, their 14th studio release and their first in 16 years.

Songs of a Lost World was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett and performed by The Cure - Robert Smith: voice / guitar / 6-string bass / keyboard, Simon Gallup: bass, Jason Cooper: drums / percussion, Roger O'Donnell: keyboard, Reeves Gabrels: guitar. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales.

Robert Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album's art and design. The cover art features Bagatelle, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

180g heavyweight black biovinyl. Mastered by Brian Lucey and Bernie Grundman.

Songs Of A Lost World is amazing. It is absolutely ridiculous that a new Cure album could be as good as this one. After the brickwalled '00s radio-rock slickness of the last two Cure albums, the production on Songs Of A Lost World is deep and soft and velvety. The guitars leave traces in the air. The keyboards shimmer. Robert Smith is now 65 years old, but his voice still has a teenage hesitation-hiccup dramatic intensity. The sheer sound of the record is a marvel. Smith co-produced the LP with with the Cure's former recording engineer Paul Corkett, and that duo happens to be the same team who handled the Bloodflowers production. Together, they understand how a Cure record should sound.

The eight songs that make up the album aspire to and often reach the same slow-moving grandeur of the Cure's high-water mark album, 1989's Disintegration...Themes of loss, isolation, impermanence, and mortality are all translated into Robert Smith's signature melodic melancholia, all of it delivered in deep, drawn-out, sweeping movements....It's a win against slim odds that the band would make a solid, listenable album almost 50 years in, and with almost 20 of those passing since their last new set of songs. Songs of a Lost World isn't just an album of unlikely listenability, though. It's a new chapter late in the game so unexpectedly powerful that it's nothing short of stunning, and just as unexpectedly, it ranks among the band's best work.

It's probably just what the darker end of Post-Punk should have gloriously blossomed into this many years on.