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- Summary: The 14th full-length studio release from British alternative rock band The Cure is its first since 2008's 4:13 Dream.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Nov 1, 2024There is something so cathartically bleak about Songs of a Lost World, so epically pessimistic and emotionally wrought, that the results are perversely invigorating, transmuting powerful feelings of loss, grief, anxiety, anger and self-doubt into a work of such grandeur it leaves the listener strangely exhilarated and uplifted.
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Oct 29, 2024Songs of a Lost World is a true return to the desolate beauty of their 80s heyday.
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Nov 6, 2024Even with its minor misstep, Songs of a Lost World is a singularly sombre picture of triumph, a band in their collective 60s still making music so vital and beautiful it can genuinely steal the words from your mouth and the heat from the room.
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Oct 31, 2024Songs of a Lost World isn't just an album of unlikely listenability, though. It's a new chaper late-in-the-game so unexpectedly powerful that it's nothing short of stunning, and just as unexpectedly, it ranks among the band's best work.
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Nov 1, 2024As an overall achievement, “Lost World” is Smith’s most fully realized and most mature artistic statement.
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Nov 1, 2024It doesn’t sound so much like a culmination of the band’s entire catalog, but a maturing of that darker facet that’s revealed itself in different forms over the years.
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Oct 31, 2024Songs of a Lost World may not be a vast step up in quality from the highlights of Bloodflowers, 4:13 Dream, or whatever your favorite is of the band’s post-Wish records. (Opinions vary wildly.) But it feels like a record whose time is right, delivering a concentrated dose of the Cure and cutting the fat that dogged their later albums.