Today, after years of talking up multiple new albums in the pipeline, the Cure have finally released one of them.It’s really great, too.
According to our review, Songs Of A Lost World, the first new Cure album in 16 years, is not a Disintegration-level masterpiece, but it’s way better than we’ve come to expect from a new LP by a classic band three decades past their peak.To celebrate the new album’s release, the Cure are performing a release show at Troxy in London and livestreaming it to the world for free.
The livestream is set to begin at 4 p.m.ET, and you can watch it all in the YouTube embed below.
On Wednesday, the Cure gave their first performance of 2024 in a BBC Radio 6 Music Session, in which they played Disintegration track “Last Dance” for the first time in five years and new album cut “All I Ever Am” for the first time ever.Later that night, the band played a longer set for the BBC Radio 2 In Concert series.
Robert Smith was interviewed in conjunction with both of those performances.Speaking to Radio 6, he explained that the gestation process for new albums has been slowed down by difficulty writing lyrics: He had this to say about the Songs Of A Lost World album artwork: After expressing that he wouldn’t make it to his 70th birthay, Smith elaborated: In the Radio 2 interview, Smith was asked whether it’s tough to perform emotionally charged songs: Speaking of those sheep: He had more to say about his nocturnal lifestyle: Below, check out clips from the two BBC performances.
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