The legendary British group The Cure, led by its charismatic leader, Robert Smith, premiered on Friday the 1stAhem November their first album since 2008, Songs of a lost worldreceived with particularly laudatory reviews from the international music and general press.
this is the 14my studio album by the group that marked the 1980s and 1990s with hits like “Children don’t cry”, “Next to me” EITHER “Friday I’m in love”. The leader of the group, Robert Smith, is 65 years old but maintains his unique style, tousled hair, smoky eyes and red lipstick.
The first reviews are very positive, like that of the British newspaper Guardianwho gives it five stars and judges that Songs of a lost world It’s the band’s best album since Disintegrationin 1989. “The band is at its artistic peak: melancholic and soulful, with a forceful sound that matches the emotional impact of the lyrics”write the diary.
In its review, the Associated Press also hails a milestone in the career of a group that is almost fifty years old. the album “don’t try to reissue Friday I’m in love EITHER between days. This is a big step forward. This is The Cure’s best album since Disintegration. I hope there are more”AP enthuses.
Melancholy, death and mourning
Songs of a lost worldAll the more anticipated because its release was postponed several times, it was written by Robert Smith while grieving the loss of several members of his family. He “ is the triumphant apocalyptic epic it was intended to be, without a doubt The Cure’s best since DisintegrationSmith reaches into the cobweb-ridden depths of his heart, sinking into adult loss and pain.”say hello to the magazine rolling stones.
In fact, Robert Smith sings about melancholy, death and mourning, a universe not totally foreign to the gothic universe of The Cure. “Unfortunately, death is more present every day. When we are younger, we romanticize it. Then it starts happening to your closest friends and family. “So it’s another story.”he told the BBC before the album’s release. The album is “sequenced in such a way that it takes you somewhere”he said in an interview posted on the group’s YouTube page. This first album in sixteen years is “Gothic and magnificent proof that no one does it better [que The Cure] in matters of sufferingconfirm the independent.
The Cure had not released an album since 4.13 Sleepin 2008. But the group, formed in 1976 in Crawley, Sussex (southern England), and which has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, continues to fill halls and stadiums wherever they go.
less euphoric, Gallows However, he concludes that “The best compliment that can be given to Songs of a lost world is that it already seems inevitable, a work of wisdom and grace that has been spreading naturally from the moment the Priest took up his instruments in a church hall all those years ago.”.
