The Cure -- Songs Of A Lost World

THANK YOU DJMARTIAN

ARE YOU AS EXCITED AS I AM???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LXN_ufL8M
(Never gets old)

this is apparently the tracklist according to some german retailer who put it up before they were supposed to:

alone
and nothing is forever
a fragile thing
warsong
another happy birthday
fugue
i can never say goodbye
endsong

about 49 minutes

Hype level: INCREASING

Quite!

DO YOU WANT TO HEAR 'A FRAGILE THING'?

I actually voted replied no, just to see what they do :-)

If this is true it's intriguing to see that 4:13 Dream's shorter length of 52 minutes - their only since 1985 under an hour - has had an advance.

Vinyl revival

I figured. Hey it got Blur to make a vinyl-length album for the first time ever.

annoying little sequencer bits on A Fragile Thing are annoying

The vinyl versions of the last three Cure albums all had bonus tracks.

I think they're offering a 2LP for the vinyl, so unless it's 12 minutes a side (or 3 sides + etch type thing) they'll need a bit more material!

The deluxe cd edition comes with a second cd of instrumentals (I assume versions of the regular songs). That’s a first for them.

"Deluxe Edition in 6-panel digisleeve includes the album and instrumentals on two CDs, plus a Blu-ray with Hi-Res stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes." - yeah, sounds like the Karaoke versions, no remixes

how very odd

New track

The Cure - A Fragile Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7sZlKuh8gA

The Same Deep Water as You - Vibes

Hopefully this is the weakest tune on the album (although I am feeling cautious re Another Happy Birthday)… I guess I like it fine on one listen and maybe it will grow on me a bit but I find it a kinda indifferent - one of those mid-paced almost-pop tracks like Maybe Someday - I reckon there is another arrangement sans skippity drum pattern that I might vibe with better but so it goes!! But not like Alone where is actively wanted to relisten and felt joy there was a strong new Cure song.

These are my feelings about the Cure on the internet!

Oh boy, that is actually really great (if a bit unproduced). Feels like they discovered a 5th song on that 1991 pre-Wish demo session

Ha ok now I want to listen to it again with that in mind!

Album Tracklist:

The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World track list from the promotional email sent out this evening. #TheCure #SongsOfALostWorld pic.twitter.com/Habc07Tjzn

— The Cure Forever (@TheCureForever_) October 9, 2024

Thank you djmartian

I looooove this

There is no fucking way that "Drone:Nodrone" can ever possibly live up to what I'm imagining in my head, but I love that title. It better be like 16 minutes long.

The deluxe cd edition comes with a second cd of instrumentals (I assume versions of the regular songs). That’s a first for them.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, October 7, 2024 2:33 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Deluxe Edition in 6-panel digisleeve includes the album and instrumentals on two CDs, plus a Blu-ray with Hi-Res stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes." - yeah, sounds like the Karaoke versions, no remixes

― StanM, Monday, October 7, 2024 3:01 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

how very odd

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, October 7, 2024 3:38 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

the instrumental version of the album was definitely a value add for me and why I plunked down for the deluxe version despite not having a Blu-ray player. I tend to enjoy that sort of thing, I guess. It's amazing what a different perspective you get when you can better hear what's happening behind the vocals, even on well-produced music

I just listened to A Fragile Thing on headphones and enjoyed it much more - bass sound is great

I ordered the album on cassette because listening to Disintegration on a Walkman is one of the defining experiences of my music-listening life and I reckon it will be a kick to do the same with this album

having said that I am tempted by the "hi res" stereo version as well

those of us who have been buying Jethro Tull deluxe CD editions for the past decade expect a blu-ray with hi-res versions of the album

Shit, I just listened to that and plain enjoyed it. Didn't need to hold it up to the canon or ask what should have been done better, just a good Cure song like I haven't heard in decades. EXCITED.

weirdly no "another happy birthday" on the album but that was the weakest of the songs they were playing live so i don't mind

i still don't love the production on "a fragile thing" but it doesn't do anywhere near as much damage as it did on "alone"

oh I hadn’t clocked that Another Happy Birthday was missing, interesting

I listened to the live recording only once, because I wanted to have an almost virgin experience right now. Hearing this in HD sound is an engulfing experience. Can't wait for this album.

The Cure are on the front cover of Uncut Magazine on Sale Friday in the UK, with an exclusive Robert Smith interview.

1/6 Whatever’s ailing you, we’ve got @thecure! Robert Smith opens up about Songs Of A Lost World and much more in the new issue of Uncut, in shops on Friday or available for pre-order now: https://t.co/19BMG2NqoB
Includes a FREE 14-track CD curated by Kim Deal! >>> pic.twitter.com/3Xe3FEVUZE

— Uncut Magazine (@uncutmagazine) October 8, 2024

First printed review of the new Cure album, in Classic Pop magazine (issue on sale with Human League on the front cover)

5 stars, calling it a masterpiece

They gave 5 Stars pic.twitter.com/YyEBif7j1X

— WitchHouse raver (@kampfbeagle) October 10, 2024

I wonder if anyone here is on an embargo :-)

*crickets*

The part about Robert getting better at playing piano though. I'm sure he plays some keys, but most of them must be Roger's.

dunno - this feels like a mostly solo album. I heard somewhere that all the songs were credited to Smith only (first time since HOTD).

the main difference in terms of actual songwriting contributions are that no one else's demos made the tracks he was considering for the album - since kmkmkm usually at least a few of simon's tracks would make each album but he didn't use any of them this time.

Roger tended to get a few b-sides up each album, right?

i know roger wrote the music to "fear of ghosts" and "out of mind", and "homesick" came from him & simon jamming to some chords written by lol, he's probably written others over the years but idk which off the top of my head

i think most of them have contributed songs over the years but simon's the most significant in terms of writing after robert

Weren't "Kiss Me" and "Disintegration" (and "Wish"?) built out of collaborative demos, with everyone contributing ideas?

from kmkmkm through to 4:13 dream the general creative process was that everyone submitted demos, they'd all discuss which ones they liked the most, and then robert would try come up with vocal parts for whichever ones he felt like, taking into account the band's feedback to some degree

from what he said in an interview a while ago they still did that process with everyone submitting demos for this album, but he just didn't end up using anyone else's ideas this time

if you listen to simon & robert's demos they're usually pretty fully-formed in terms of arrangement. i think it's been said that some of the others (perry iirc) tended towards less fleshed out ideas that required more input from the rest of the band though

i've seen people say "another happy birthday" was based on a bloodflowers-era demo from perry so maybe it was never considered for this album & instead is planned for that second half-finished album?

The London Troxy promo show will be streamed live on The Cure's youtube channel

(for free, the promo mail also said)

Reviewed at NME with 5 stars

looks like the embargo is smashed, but those subversives at the NME

The Cure – ‘Songs Of A Lost World’: a masterful reflection on loss
https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-lyrics-3801637

Robert Smith and co’s first full album in 16 years deals in darkness and death, but with flowers on the grave

By
Andrew Trendell

Andrew Trendell
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@NME
News Editor | Journalist (NCE/NQJ) | Ex-consultant + producer for
@SomethinElse
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@BBC6Music
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New Album also reviewed in the new issue of Mojo:

The new MOJO, starring @DavidBowieReal and a CD of premium sci-fi rock. Plus @thecure, @officialcult, Supertramp, The Saints, @EzraCollective, @idlesband, @Manics, King Crimson, Tina Turner, @tompetty, Kim Deal, Faces and more. Info: https://t.co/p0Z56MrfZK pic.twitter.com/2aIgwHlrbk

— MOJO Magazine (@MOJOmagazine) October 10, 2024

Mojo: Issue Details 373 December 2024
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-373-december-2024-david-bowie/

I really wonder what was behind Perry's reappearance on the last tour. It doesn't sound like he's played on the album and it's not like they needed a 6th musician on stage. Can't help but feel like this was a favor to him (maybe to get him some needed extra cash)

The cash could be a factor but IIRC he at least makes some "Friday I'm In Love" royalty coin, such as that may be these days.