Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
Huge thank you to Ryan for tirelessly providing us with information. 
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
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Nice rundown of everything here:
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news...Songs of a Lost World is the long awaited new
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news...Songs of a Lost World is the long awaited new
Mozzer1980
Well-Known Member
Obviously associations with the atmosphere of Disintegration come to mind.
I have a feeling this song will stay with me for a long time. I hope the whole album has this kind of vibe.
Alone is perfect for the cloudy beginning of autumn. Beautiful song.
I have a feeling this song will stay with me for a long time. I hope the whole album has this kind of vibe.
Alone is perfect for the cloudy beginning of autumn. Beautiful song.
BrokenFrame
Well-Known Member
I'm not very knowledgeable about the cure, but "alone" doesn't like a single in the traditional sense.
ZOOM FROM GLOOM
LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA!
maybe it’s the most commercial one on the album. It’s no Hot Hot Hot!!! of course. Lol.
I still have hope for the rest of the album, or it may be one of those.. great as a whole album things, a captured mood. Think of Lou Reeds Berlin. An amazing album, that doesn’t really have singles, but is still a classic, and a must have for anyone’s collection.
Vesper Nocturne
Fatefully in Orbit. Circling. Nearing Collision
I thought i would underestimate this and that after i heard it I would be instantly transported back to the raw and romantic feeling of the way emotions felt in that specific way that i felt them on certain cure songs when i was a teenager, when the silken moodiness of some of the songs resonated specifically because it felt like they were echoing a silken feeling inside that i knew had, but couldn’t have explained, and could put my finger on to describe to anyone external to me even less. It always felt like the music was the atmospheric and musical embodiment of deep and fast moving currents under the still surface of the water that reflects nothing above, and if you were that kind of deep and fast moving currents under the perfectly still surface type of person, then not everyone ever had an inkling what that might even be like, let alone what you might be about.
So I listened to this and loved it from the beginning, was waiting impatiently and telling myself that it served me right to underestimate them, and that i should have known better than to have such an, I can-take-it-or-leave-it, not-fully-enthused view.
The mood and the sound couldn’t have been more perfect. And then he started singing - and it all immediately fell apart for me, like an entirely collapsed souffle. It was just over at that point. As soon as his vocal came in it immediately made me think it sounded like a super tacky movie soundtrack.
And i’m very aware he sounds exactly like he always sounds, so it’s not his voice. It’s just the way all the different elements combine to form the whole.
Doesn’t change the fact though that it still makes you wonder what kind of people are listening to James blah and to B&S blah in 2024, when even 2024 Cure will be so good compared to all those completely pedestrian nobodies.
When i went to go see the Cure when I was in high school in the 90s there actually was a girl that turned up to the venue in her actual wedding dress. But she was a goth who was 1,000,000% alllllll goth’d out to the absolute MAX, so everyone thought it was just her totally over the top Cure concert like I’m-married-to-Robert-Smith-in-my-mind BEST goth concert look ever, but no. She had actually gotten married that day. 4ft high bride of frankenstein hair and full on gothface makeup and a HUGE dragging bouquet of dried and dead, black flowers and all.
Definitely 3hours was more than 1.5 hours too long though. And definitely Robert Smith was 1,000,000% jealous of that girl’s hair. It was like a modern art interpretation of a black sooted and completely singed skyscraping tower of birds nests to the max. As it happens I’m a huge proponent of any kind of bird’s nest hair. Probably why i remember it
So I listened to this and loved it from the beginning, was waiting impatiently and telling myself that it served me right to underestimate them, and that i should have known better than to have such an, I can-take-it-or-leave-it, not-fully-enthused view.
The mood and the sound couldn’t have been more perfect. And then he started singing - and it all immediately fell apart for me, like an entirely collapsed souffle. It was just over at that point. As soon as his vocal came in it immediately made me think it sounded like a super tacky movie soundtrack.
And i’m very aware he sounds exactly like he always sounds, so it’s not his voice. It’s just the way all the different elements combine to form the whole.
Doesn’t change the fact though that it still makes you wonder what kind of people are listening to James blah and to B&S blah in 2024, when even 2024 Cure will be so good compared to all those completely pedestrian nobodies.
When i went to go see the Cure when I was in high school in the 90s there actually was a girl that turned up to the venue in her actual wedding dress. But she was a goth who was 1,000,000% alllllll goth’d out to the absolute MAX, so everyone thought it was just her totally over the top Cure concert like I’m-married-to-Robert-Smith-in-my-mind BEST goth concert look ever, but no. She had actually gotten married that day. 4ft high bride of frankenstein hair and full on gothface makeup and a HUGE dragging bouquet of dried and dead, black flowers and all.
Definitely 3hours was more than 1.5 hours too long though. And definitely Robert Smith was 1,000,000% jealous of that girl’s hair. It was like a modern art interpretation of a black sooted and completely singed skyscraping tower of birds nests to the max. As it happens I’m a huge proponent of any kind of bird’s nest hair. Probably why i remember it
ZOOM FROM GLOOM
LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA!
“2019 Live From The Moon”
http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2024/09/2019-live-from-moon.html?m=1
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Thecure.com is back and fully updated. Including this from the bio:
In 2024 Robert Smith finally turned his mind to finishing one of the albums recorded in 2019. Mixing with Paul Corkett (Bloodflowers and longtime Cure FOH Sound), the songs chosen for the first release were finally completed in August. As an appetiser, a live 12” single Novembre: Live In France 2022, featuring new songs And Nothing Is Forever and I Can Never Say Goodbye was released October 1st to benefit Earthpercent. The Cure once again signed to Fiction Records for the much anticipated November 1st release of Songs Of A Lost World... and then...
http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2024/09/2019-live-from-moon.html?m=1
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Official site is back
Thecure.com is back and fully updated. Including this from the bio:
In 2024 Robert Smith finally turned his mind to finishing one of the albums recorded in 2019. Mixing with Paul Corkett (Bloodflowers and longtime Cure FOH Sound), the songs chosen for the first release were finally completed in August. As an appetiser, a live 12” single Novembre: Live In France 2022, featuring new songs And Nothing Is Forever and I Can Never Say Goodbye was released October 1st to benefit Earthpercent. The Cure once again signed to Fiction Records for the much anticipated November 1st release of Songs Of A Lost World... and then...
Updated the first post of the thread with all relevant info condensed into one spot for tl;dr people like me.
Also, regarding the album being 8 tracks, here are some more details plucked from the new official bio:
In February 2019 The Cure went into Rockfield Studios to record 13 new songs and rehearse for what was destined to be a very intense year.
In September the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record another 7 new songs, and October saw them return to the Americas for another 2 headline appearances
In 2024 Robert Smith finally turned his mind to finishing one of the albums recorded in 2019.
Also, regarding the album being 8 tracks, here are some more details plucked from the new official bio:
In February 2019 The Cure went into Rockfield Studios to record 13 new songs and rehearse for what was destined to be a very intense year.
In September the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record another 7 new songs, and October saw them return to the Americas for another 2 headline appearances
In 2024 Robert Smith finally turned his mind to finishing one of the albums recorded in 2019.
Alone’s inspiration:
Newer fans being critical or saying “more than borrowed” needn’t look further than Charlotte Sometimes, How Beautiful You Are… and Killing An Arab, all inspired by literary works with lines and sections borrowed from them. It isn’t anything new for the band or Robert’s lyricism.
Newer fans being critical or saying “more than borrowed” needn’t look further than Charlotte Sometimes, How Beautiful You Are… and Killing An Arab, all inspired by literary works with lines and sections borrowed from them. It isn’t anything new for the band or Robert’s lyricism.
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Anonbloke
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What's going on with the title for track 7 in the second image - "07 Another Happy Birthday (o Drone: No Drone o It Can Never Be The Same)." Are they suggesting it's a medley of 2 tracks?
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
What’s going on with track 7?
I have no idea! Pending further details.
Someone posted:
We don't know track 7 yet, Side B hasn't been confirmed except it's certain that Endsong will be the last track.on the record. Track 7 could be Another Happy Birthday, Drone/No Drone or It Can Never Be The Same.
Drone/No Drone is the title of some art that Robert has created for a charity recently, it's just speculation that it could be a song title.
…possible lyrics to Drone:No Drone here? -
Meanwhile:
Someone posted:
We don't know track 7 yet, Side B hasn't been confirmed except it's certain that Endsong will be the last track.on the record. Track 7 could be Another Happy Birthday, Drone/No Drone or It Can Never Be The Same.
Drone/No Drone is the title of some art that Robert has created for a charity recently, it's just speculation that it could be a song title.
…possible lyrics to Drone:No Drone here? -
Meanwhile:
Another new exclusive to appear on BBC Radio 6 on October 2. Tour announcement maybe?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCure/s/EWLTcHWW3E
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCure/s/EWLTcHWW3E
So apparently the lyrics Robert included on his artwork "Drone:No Drone" are lyrics to the song "Fugue" from side B of the album:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCure/s/BuLZ1eBVZK
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCure/s/BuLZ1eBVZK
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
A second single seems unlikely at this point, so yeah, a tour is probably it. But do people do tour announcements on the radio?
https://gp-lpz.com/shop/vinyl/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-01-11-2024/
- Alone (approx. 7min)
- And Nothing Is Forever (approx. 6min)
- A Fragile Thing (approx. 5min)
- Warsong (approx. 6min)
- Another Happy Birthday (approx. 4min)
- Fugue (approx. 5min)
- I Can Never Say Goodbye (approx. 6min)
- Endsong (approx. 10min)
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
Fantastic. We all know Endsong is likely to be the best song of the year.
Disappointed, however, that It Can Never Be the Same isn’t on the album. Would love to hear a studio version of that one.
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