The Cure -- Songs Of A Lost World

Looks like November 1 date

hopefully that's the album and not just a single drop

finally!!!!

did it say what year?

god imagine if there was a new Cure album that didn't have totally risible artwork

(also I really like the songs played live I've heard so far)

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth)

Let’s be honest not even classic The Cure had good artwork. Most of it is looks lazy or is not very aesthetically pleasing… imho their best artwork is usually for compilations and I’ll assume the band were not too involved in the art direction of those. Their best album covers imho are:

- Join the Dots
- Mixed Up / Torn Down
- Japanese Whispers
- Standing on a beach / staring at the sea

Wellllll I would go into bat for 17S, Faith, The Top, HotD, KM3 and Disintegration as all being visually distinctive and aesthetically pleasing! As well as vibing with the contents..

Plus a lot of the single sleeves are cool too

They certainly are miles above eg Bloodflowers / The Cure . 4:13

I remember seeing Bloodflowers in a shop and being absolutely shocked, thinking it must have been some kind of mistake or a mocked-up promo sleeve made by the work experience kid at the HMV store

three imaginary boys has a great cover. fridge

Moka you're insane, the Cure have some of the best singles cover art of any band, ever

given the timeframes they've been working with i assume 1 november is when they'll announce the album properly, not the release date

Wellllll I would go into bat for 17S, Faith, The Top, HotD, KM3 and Disintegration as all being visually distinctive and aesthetically pleasing! As well as vibing with the contents..

absolutely, these are great album covers. Disintegration is particularly amazing. The difference between it and alleged-sequel-album Bloodflowers is astounding.

Moka coming with serious challops. I still have my longbox, lol, faith cover mounted to a piece of black paper somewhere, total classic cover

three imaginary boys has a great cover. fridge

Undy’s artwork for the WMS LP / singles / adverts feels like a reclamation of the hated-by-RS Imaginary sleeve. Household objects and heightened, unheimlich lighting.

Chill chill lol I don’t think it’s bad by any means, some of it I do think is decent (Faith and Seventeen Seconds in particular are cool) and very tied to the music within… also yeah I wasn’t considering singles artwork, there’s some brilliant stuff in there I agree.

I don’t think their artwork is anywhere as iconic as their music though

*ducks*

Seventeen Seconds used to be my favourite album cover ever. I ripped it off twice for my first "band" at school.

I can't and won't fault their 79-96 artwork at all. Apart from Concert (which I guess goes for the bootleg look but that's not a good look). Even the lurid toytown of the WMS era I enjoy a lot.

https://i.discogs.com/uVdoAfCAxpxxeNnvoRXBixGCUWG5TUFF00mbVrSO8TI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyNDkz/NS0xNDc3NzA2MDYy/LTk1MTEuanBlZw.jpeg

i hate to be the heavy winded puffed up overbearing guy once again, but that's some fairly iconic artwork you got there, friends.

Hope that's not a joke. That's such a nice piece of cod-Garrett design.

You know what is terrible? This art for the Australian 7" of A Forest. But if you own a copy (I have a moderately beat up one) the aesthetic distress is neatly offset by the Discogs median price.

https://postimg.cc/4H3pLRt7

Ah dammit. Anyway.

Even the angle of the song name adds to the overall air of car air freshener.

Cure album covers poll?

xp lol yes and then the bold design choice to use yet another random and inappropriate font for Another Journey By Train

I do love these early Cure artefacts though - esp the Australian ones, they did some pretty brutal small venue touring here in the early days - and these slightly off-brand releases kind of speak to a time before they became a properly global concern

another favourite!

Happily Ever After with the flag wavers is another bizarre favourite - which I first saw in Michael Ochs' 1000 Record Covers book years before I knew what it was, wondering why it wasn't part of the sleeve collages in the Wish and Greatest Hits booklets.

Kinda looks haflway between SMart the TV show for real, and Hipgnosis (the latter fitting as the comp is the Cure's own A Nice Pair with its similar unrelated imagery).

Btw the Bloodflowers sleeve is a Picasso compared to the booklet, which seems to have been designed on Microsoft Word with Times New Roman like Robert lost a bet, or like someone having made a CD-R of an internet-only release and wanting to make it seem more legit. Actually it's almost a (less interesting) dead ringer for that anti-design style that followed/still follows in the wake of The Life of Pablo.

Poll idea sounds fun

absolutely not joking re: jset cover art. to me, it belongs in the record cover hof, alongside other striking surreal imagery like pink moon, roger dean stuff, bitches brew, funcrusher plus, etc. hyper realistic infinite cartoony scenes instantly burned into my memory. trippy, but functional. very classic.

84-86 singles are probably what I’d consider the apex of their visual identity

That 'Jumping Someone Else's Train' cover I would say is more of a Linder Sterling style lift

Xp sorry I meant 84-87, doh

Photos going around of posters now on public view in the UK similar to the cards announcing the album title and date.

I just hope they didn’t settle for a live album with the new songs

Isn't that what REM did with New Adventures in Hi-Fi, sorta?

some people got postcards with the release date in the UK: https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-cure-send-fans-postcards-confirming-new-album-title-and-release-date-3793374

oh they were already mentioned. my bad

I love that @thecure appear to have announced the release date of their first new album in 16 years with a single poster outside the local pub they played their first gig at in 1978. https://t.co/BJqNGjlRWW

— Alex Meehan 👨‍💻 (@alex_meehan) September 13, 2024

I can't believe how excited I am for this album. It's one of those last things before I die wishes.

Retweeted by Reeves:

The Cure @thecure have announced the release date of their first album in 16 years, by placing a single poster outside the pub they played their first gig in 1978.

The Railway, Crawley, Sussex.

Now that’s cool….and two fingers up to the usual corporate hype. pic.twitter.com/rNlWqvafbi

— Sacha Lord (@Sacha_Lord) September 15, 2024

The official FB account and I'm sure others just shared out shots of the Crawley poster and the card and the date and all so yeah, it's all happening.

(Annnnnnd I will say if we get a tracklisting soon -- like, actually soon -- then yes, I think a pre-covers effort is necessary.)

Annnnnd per someone who would know, we have a website:

https://www.songsofalost.world/

Thought the release date might be the code to unlock, but no such luck in either American or British date format.

Er, it is the release date in UK format

ha, yeah, I realized I hadn't quite scrolled far enough to get the correct year

seems the album is being released exclusively as a carved stone

There'll be a USB stick with the flac files embedded within, just requires some effort of the listener...

if you join via the songsofalost.world link there's an "if you want to delve deeper, join the WhatsApp community" link

DOES ROBERT SHOUT ON THERE TOO?

ONWARDS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mTYDlm5sE

interesting - I get the feeling he sometimes says things he hopes are going to become real just because he said them, but then he gets insecure and more months go by again, imho - it's a miracle this ever got finished

2 ENDSONG (Orbital Remix)

INJECT THIS DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS

8 ALONE (Four Tet Remix)
7 ALONE (Shanti Celeste 'February Blues' Remix)

fuck. new favorite cure album incoming

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT

1 I CAN NEVER SAY GOODBYE (Craven Faults Rework)

Found them thanks to someone on the Ambient thread. At least twice in the car, the vibrating opening of “Hurrocstanes” had me wondering if my car engine was in trouble.

foutet mix is the preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELb-wHV2_0

Oh my god yes

sorry for typo. too excited to post. mix is good!

four tet remix is amazing :))))

this rules

ex easter island head too!
really stoked for this

The Chino Moreno remix of "Warsong" went up yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paUcB79YHVk

1 I CAN NEVER SAY GOODBYE (Craven Faults Rework)

Found them thanks to someone on the Ambient thread. At least twice in the car, the vibrating opening of “Hurrocstanes” had me wondering if my car engine was in trouble.

Roffle but yeah, they're like that! Great act for sure.

warsong remix is great but I wish it were longer

I still listen to this album quite a bit, absolutely adore it.

Mixes of a Lost World is out today. I haven't had a chance to listen yet.

it's hella long. lots of good things on it, but kind of overwhelming.

This album is so wonderful, whenever a random song pop up it just lights me up. This album feels like classic Cure. I would love a new tour to hear these songs loud.

NEWS: The Cure announce live dates for Summer 2026
https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/10/01/news-the-cure-announce-live-dates-for-summer-2026/

Following on from the release of their most recent album, Songs Of A Lost World, they will play the following dates next year:

JUNE

26 – Marlay Park, Dublin

28 – Belsonic, Belfast

AUGUST

21 – Live From Wythenshawe Park, Manchester

23 – Edinburgh Summer Sessions, Royal Highland Showgrounds, Edinburgh

The Cure will be joined by support acts personally chosen by Robert Smith including Mogwai (Glasgow), Slowdive (Manchester and Edinburgh), The Twilight Sad (Dublin & Belfast), Just Mustard (Dublin, Belfast and Edinburgh), The Slow Readers Club (Manchester) and Stella And The Dreaming (Dublin).

Tickets for all shows (excluding the Isle of Wight Festival) go on sale Friday October 3 at 9am and 12pm for Dublin and Belfast via Ticketmaster.

Gig in fucking Cardiff next summer announced today!!

Go start a moshpit

They're doing lots of big festivals elsewhere as well: https://www.thecure.com/shows/

Troxy show last year getting a short theatrical release:

https://thecurelostworld.com/

THE CURE: THE SHOW OF A LOST WORLD is a recut, remixed and 4K remastered film of that night’s full 31-song show. Directed by Grammy-nominated Nick Wickham, with new surround sound mix by Robert Smith, the film will be released on Thursday 11th December in cinemas worldwide for a limited time only.

One year old.

The Troxy show is playing at a movie screen within walking distance for me tonight. Over three hours long but I'm thinking about going.

I just got tickets for this for Sunday

Watching this on Sunday myself!

I'm here, so excited! Last time I did something like this was the Cure in Orange. I have could also gone on Sunday night but that wouldn't have worked as well.

Could <> have