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The Cure debuted two new songs last night (October 6) as they kicked off their 2022 world tour with a gig in Riga, Latvia.

The iconic indie band performed at the Arena Riga in the city, sharing 25 songs across the evening with the audience.

Among them were two fresh, previously unheard cuts that could feature on their upcoming new album, Songs Of A Lost World . The gig began with one of them, “Alone,” which opened with an expansive soundscape of guitars, keys and drums, with frontman Robert Smith later singing on it: “ This is the end of every song that we sing. ”

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Later, at the end of the main set, The Cure shared another new song in “Endsong.” That track also took on a melancholy form, Smith singing about a life with “ no hopes, no dreams, no love – I don’t belong .”

The show also saw keyboardist and guitarist Perry Bamonte rejoin the band’s touring line-up 17 years after he last performed with them.

The tour will continue tomorrow night (October 8) in Helsinki, Finland, with the dates running until mid-December, when they will wrap up with three nights at London’s OVO Arena Wembley. The full schedule and tickets can be found on The Cure’s official website .

In November, the band will share a deluxe edition of their multi-platinum 1992 album, Wish , to mark its 30th anniversary. It was the band’s ninth studio album and, at the time, became the band’s best-selling album, reaching No.1 in the UK and Mo.2 in the US, where it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Album category.

Last month (September 24), the band released “Miss Van Gogh (Instrumental Demo)” from the upcoming reissue, which is one of a raft of previously unreleased tracks that will feature on the new edition.

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The Cure’s Arena Riga setlist:

“Alone” “Pictures Of You” “Closedown” “A Night Like This” “Lovesong” “Trust” “Burn” “Fascination Street” “Push” “In Between Days” “Play For Today” “A Forest” “Want” “Shake Dog Shake” “39” “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea” “Endsong” “Plainsong” “Disintegration” “Lullaby” “Close To Me” “The Walk” “Friday I’m In Love” “Just Like Heaven” “Boys Don’t Cry”

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The Cure played their first live show in close to three years last night in Latvia, and they brought a couple of new songs along with them.

The group opened their set with the world premiere of "Alone." "This is the end of every song that we sing / The fire burned out in ash and the stars grown dim with tears," frontman Robert Smith began as he delivered the soaring, dramatic track.

From there, the Cure proceeded to rock through many of their most beloved tunes, including "Pictures of You," "Love Song," "Trust" and "Fascination Street."

The group debuted another song later in the night, delivering a climatic new track called "Endsong" as they closed their initial set.

Watch the Cure Debut 'Alone' in Latvia

The Cure returned for two encores, delivering such hits as "Close to Me," "Friday I'm in Love" and "Just Like Heaven." The 25-song set ended with a performance of the 1979 single "Boys Don't Cry."

The full set list from the performance can be found below.

The Latvia concert was notable for many reasons beyond the two new tracks. The performance was the band's first live appearance since October 2019. It also marked the Cure's reunion with Perry Bamonte, the keyboardist who was a member of the band from 1990 to 2005, playing on such albums as Wish and Wild Mood Swings . Last night's performance was Bamonte's first with the band since 2004.

The Cure has not released any new music since 2008's  4:13 Dream , but according to the group's guitarist, Reeves Gabrels, the pandemic brought about a fresh opportunity to write new songs.

"We were over-productive," Gabrels, who previously played with  David Bowie  and joined the Cure in 2012, told UCR at the beginning of this year. "Which is great, except it means you really can't judge the songs until you get them close to finished. You kind of have to bring all that material up to the point where you can hear what they are."

Listen to 'Endsong' From the Cure's Concert in Latvia

Back in June, Smith described the new music as "very emotional" and that it could potentially be the last album the band makes. He also admitted that he'd struggled to complete the lyrics for the songs. "Last year I just gave up. I thought, 'I can't do it. They can all be instrumentals,'" he said. "And this year I sort of came back to it. Last year was difficult for a number of reasons, not least the pandemic, but what I wrote this year I have enjoyed."

In August, bassist Simon Gallup, the second longest-serving member of the Cure after Smith, announced on his Facebook page that he would be leaving the band , saying that he'd "got fed up of betrayal." Two months later, however, he  stated that was still a member of the group.

The Cure are scheduled to continue touring Europe and the U.K. until mid-December, finishing out this leg of their world tour with three consecutive performances at London's Wembley Stadium on Dec. 11, 12 and 13.

Watch the Cure Perform 'Pictures of You' in Latvia

The Cure, 10/6,22, Riga, Latvia 1. “Alone” 2. “Pictures of You” 3. “Closedown” 4. “A Night Like This” 5. “Lovesong” 6. “Trust” 7. “Burn” 8. “Fascination Street” 9. “Push” 10. “In Between Days” 11. “Play for Today” 12. “A Forest" 13. “Want” 14. “Shake Dog Shake” 15. “39” 16. “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” 17. “Endsong” 18. “Plainsong” 19. “Disintegration” 20. “Lullaby” 21. “Close to Me” 22. “The Walk” 23. “Friday I'm in Love” 24. “Just Like Heaven” 25. “Boys Don't Cry”

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The Cure kicked off their 44-date 2022 European tour in Riga, Latvia at the Arēna Rīga on Oct. 6 by debuting two new songs, “Alone” and “Endsong,” and welcomed back former guitarist and keyboardist Perry Bamonte to the band.

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Playing through a 25-song set, which included “Push,” “Fascination Street,” “In Between Days,” “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea,” and “Lovesong,” Bamonte, who played with the band from 1990 to 2005, and on the band’s 1992 album, Wish , through their 12th album, The Cure , in 2004, made his return.

Bamonte also rejoined The Cure for a performance during the band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2019.

Opening their set with the wistful “Alone” with Robert Smith singing This is the end of every song we sing , they bookended their set with “Endsong,” similar in title and perhaps some continuation of the band’s 1989 Disintegration track “Plainsong.”

The tour, featuring The Twilight Sad as support, will run through December, ending with three nights at Wembley Stadium on Dec. 13 and continue in North America in 2023.

The Cure is also set to release their 14th album Songs From A Lost World , the band’s first since 2008 4:13 Dream .

The Cure 2022 Tour Dates

Oct. 6:  Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia Oct. 8:  Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland Oct. 10:  Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden Oct. 12:  Spektrum, Oslo, Norway Oct. 13:  Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden Oct. 14:  Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark Oct. 16:  Barclays Arena, Hamburg, Germany Oct. 17:  Quarterback Immobilien Arena, Leipzig, Germany Oct. 18:  Mercedes Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany Oct. 20:  Tauron Arena, Krakow, Poland Oct. 21:  Atlas Arena, Lodz, Poland Oct. 23:  Marx Halle, Vienna, Austria Oct. 24:  O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic Oct. 26 : Arena, Budapest, Hungary Oct. 27:  Arena, Zagreb, Croatia Oct. 29:  Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany Oct. 31:  Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy Nov. 1:  Mandela Forum, Firenze, Italy Nov. 3:  Kioene Arena, Padova, Italy Nov. 4:  Forum, Milan, Italy Nov. 6:  Arena, Geneva, Switzerland Nov. 7:  Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France Nov. 8:  Sud De France Arena, Montpellier, France Nov. 10:  Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain Nov. 11:  Wizink Centre, Madrid, Spain Nov. 13:  Zenith, Toulouse, France Nov. 14:  Arkea Arena, Bordeaux, France Nov. 15:  Zenith, Nantes, France Nov. 17:  Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany Nov. 18:  Zenith, Strasbourg, France Nov. 19:  St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland Nov. 21:  Hanns-martin-schleyer-halle, Stuttgart, Germany Nov. 22:  Lanxess Arena, Koln, Germany Nov. 23:  Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium Nov. 25:  Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands Nov. 27:  Stade, Lievin, France Nov. 28:  Accor Arena, Paris, France Dec. 1:  3Arena, Dublin, Ireland Dec. 2:  SSE Arena, Belfast, U.K. Dec. 4:  Ovo Hydro, Glasgow , U.K. Dec. 6:  First Direct Arena, Leeds, U.K. Dec. 7:  Utilita Arena, Birmingham, U.K. Dec. 8:  Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, U.K. Dec. 11:  Wembley SSE Arena, London, U.K.

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Robert Smith and co's first album in over 15 years is set to be released any day soon... but how much do we know about it already?

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What is the cure's new album called.

In the summer of 2019, Robert Smith claimed that the new album was to be named "Live From The Moon", inspired by the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. However, at the Ivor Novelllo Awards cremony in May 2022 , Smith revealed that the title was now Songs Of A Lost World . The social media and marketing campaign for the new album has similarly been using the title Songs Of A Lost World.

Does The Cure's Songs Of A Lost World album have a release date?

On 9th September 2024, The Cure's official website and social media channels updated the band's logo, leading many fans to wonder if an announcement of new material was imminent.

On 12th September, a poster on the Steve Hoffman Music Forum reported that they'd received "a plain black postcard sized envelope today with my name and address in silver writing.

"Inside was what looked like a blank black postcard. Good quality card. Noticed the tiniest embossed writing on it...a bit scattered..

"Took a while - it reads "songs [of] a lost world"

"At the bottom - in roman numerals is the date 1/11/24"

The Cure - Songs From a Lost World out on Nov. 1st? From the Steve Hoffman Music Forum. https://t.co/6uH1clpOtS pic.twitter.com/clzM00527s — Chain of Flowers (@CraigatCoF) September 12, 2024

Since then, Robert Smith has tweeted the address of a brand new Cure website, www.songsofalost.world , which asks users to enter a code: when the number 1/11/2024 is entered (via the all-important Roman numerals), fans can sign up for more information, which includes a brand new Cure WhatsApp account!

https://t.co/QT5JwFYJ7a — ROBERT SMITH (@RobertSmith) September 17, 2024

Alongside this, digital billboards have been cropping up around the world, bearing the artwork from the website, while the Railway Inn (formerly The Rocket) in the band's hometown of Crawley is the site of a similar poster. The Rocket was the scene of a number of early Cure shows in the late 1970s.

📣 Algo está pasando en España! La Gran Vía de Madrid amanece con info sobre el nuevo álbum de @thecure #songsofalostworld que saldrá a la venta el próximo 01.11.24! @CraigatCoF @curefans @TheCureForever_ @out_cure #TheCure @RobertSmith @UniversalSpain @LiveNationES #SOALW pic.twitter.com/3v7zPVhGTS — HispaCure. The Cure España - The Cure Spain ®️ (@hispacure) September 16, 2024

On 19th September, The Cure's official X account tweeted the co-ordinates "53.8159° N, 3.0552° W" which turns out to be the location of Blackpool Tower. Robert Smith was born in the seaside town before he moved South to Crawley in West Sussex.

https://t.co/8cgSkWuYeR 📍53.8159° N, 3.0552° W pic.twitter.com/gWlsQYT12D — The Cure (@thecure) September 19, 2024

What will be the track listing of The Cure's Songs Of A Lost World?

On Friday 20th September, The Cure's new WhatsApp group sent out a message offering a teaser to the new song Alone . It's expected this will be the opening track on Songs Of A Lost World.

Back in the autumn of 2022, The Cure headed out on a European tour, which saw the band unveil a number of new songs.

The first show in Latvia on 6th October saw the debut of Alone and another new track, Endsong .

The Cure - Alone - World Premiere, New Song - October 6, 2022 - Riga - Songs Of A Lost World - HD

The Cure - Endsong (2022-10-06 Riga)

Four days later, in Stockholm, fans were treated to another new song, And Nothing Is Forever.

The Cure - And Nothing Is Forever (World Premiere) @ Avicii Arena Stockholm October 10 2022

On 20th October in Kraków, Poland, the band debuted I Can Never Say Goodbye at the start of the first encore. Smith explained that it was about his brother, Richard, who had died recently and, according to Robert, had lived in Poland for a number of years. It was Richard's participation in a local collective with the unlikely name of The Crawley Goat Band that really sparked Robert's interest in performing music.

The Cure - I Can Never Say Goodbye (Kraków, Poland 20.10.2022) NEW SONG / WORLD PREMIERE

At a show in Milan on 4th November, there was the world premiere of A Fragile Thing .

A FRAGILE THING - The Cure *New song* Milano 4.11.2022

What has Robert Smith said about Songs Of A Lost World?

In August 2019, Smith told the Los Angeles Times: “I keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say that’s it."

He admitted the sound of the album had been affected by family bereavements: “It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum. I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me.

“It’ll be worth the wait. I think it’s the best thing we’ve done, but then I would say that. A lot of the songs are difficult to sing, and that’s why it’s taken me a while."

In July 2020, keyboard player Roger O'Donnell told Classic Pop magazine : "Four years ago, I said to Robert, 'We have to make one more record. It has to be the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record we've ever made, and then we can just walk away from it.' He agreed. Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.

"The problem is, when you've got a back catalogue like The Cure, it's a lot to live up to. Robert has said, 'If The Cure say any more, it had better be important and it had better be f***ing good'. It is, it's going to be an amazing record. I just suggest a little patience."

Speaking to The Sunday Times in June 2021 , Smith claimed that this may be the very last Cure album: “The new stuff is very emotional. It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff. I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again.”

The same month, S mith also repeated the claim to Apple Music 1 that the band had recorded enough songs for two albums: "One of them’s very, very doom and gloom and the other one isn’t."

When did The Cure last release an album?

The last official Cure studio album was 4:13 Dream , issued in October 2008. It was the band's 13th LP (hence the name), meaning it will be a full 15 years between that release and Songs Of A Lost World.

The Cure's studio album discography to date has been:

• Three Imaginary Boys (11th May 1979)
• Seventeen Seconds (18th April 1980)
• Faith (18th April 1981)
• Pornography (4th May 1982)
• The Top (4th May 1984)
• The Head On The Door (30th August 1985)
• Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (26th May 1987)
• Disintegration (2nd May 1989)
• Wish (21st April 1992)
• Wild Mood Swings (6th May 1996)
• Bloodflowers (14th February 2000)
• The Cure (28th June 2004)
• 4:13 Dream (27th October 2008)

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The Cure opened their mammoth European tour in Latvia on 6 October with a brand new song called Alone. It was later followed by the debut of Endsong, both believed to feature on the band's forthcoming album Songs Of A Lost World . 

While the future release date for the album is still unknown, a familiar face from the past appeared in the lineup at the show at Arēna Rīga in the form of Perry Bamonte, who previously played keyboards in The Cure between 1990 and 2005.

The typically generous 25-song set also featured the first performance of Trust from the Wish album since 2016.

As for the new compositions, Endsong's lawn drawn out intro and pace recall Disintegration's Plainsong, but with a markedly more desolate mood that affirm's Robert Smith's previous suggestion Songs Of A Lost World is going to reflect the darker side of his sound.

And true to that form, Endsong is another slow, haunting build; Smith's vocals don't begin until over six-minutes into its ten-minutes duration. We're starting to realise why Smith had to dig deep for this album. 

The band will play 22 countries on the tour with 44-dates spanning October, November and December, all with The Twilight Sad supporting. 

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The Cure will embark on their first North American tour in seven years this summer as the Rock Hall-inducted band ’s Songs of a Lost World trek have added four additional dates to their previously scheduled slate of 30 shows.

Following their 2022 European jaunt, Robert Smith and company will kick off their 2023 North American dates on May 10 in New Orleans. After circling the U.S. and parts of Canada — including three-night stands at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and New York’s Madison Square Garden — the leg concludes July 1 in Miami.

The new dates include a stop in Portland as well as additional nights in Montreal, Atlanta, and San Diego. “Please please please don’t buy tickets if you don’t intend [on] going to the show,” the band pleaded on Twitter, hoping their tickets make it into the right hands and don’t end up on secondary markets.

FOUR EXTRA SHOWS ADDED TO OUR ’SHOWS OF A LOST WORLD’ NORTH AMERICAN TOUR – THREE OF THEM ARE ‘EXTRA NIGHTS’ – 21ST MAY SAN DIEGO / 17TH JUNE MONTREAL / 28TH JUNE ATLANTA #ShowsOfALostWorld2023 1/5 pic.twitter.com/BDVMGBnNXB — The Cure (@thecure) April 5, 2023

Fans can sign up for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan now ahead of the on-sale dates. New dates will be available beginning Friday, April 7 at 10 a.m. local time. The fourth extra show, the Portland stop, will be “an experiment to see whether non-transferable tickets are enough protection,” thus Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan will not be required for those purchases.

Other than the Cure’s 2019 performances at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, the Austin City Limits Festival , and their own Pasadena Daydream fest , the band last staged a North American tour in 2016.

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The Cure launch secret ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ website and WhatsApp channel

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The Cure have launched a secret website and WhatsApp channel ahead of the release of their long-awaited new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.

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The band haven’t released a studio album since 2008’s ‘ 4:13 Dream ‘, but have sprung into action in recent weeks by teasing the new album on social media before sending postcards out to fans confirming the album’s title and release date (November 1, 2024) and erecting a ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ poster at the Crawley pub where they played their first gig.

Now, it looks like more information could be on the way via a new secret website.

To gain access, fans need to visit www.songsofalost.world and then enter the album release date in Roman numerals: I. XI. MMXXIV. You’ll then get a glimpse of what could be new artwork in the form of a decaying statue, as well as being invited to sign up to a mailing list and join The Cure’s WhatsApp community.

Upon messaging the WhatsApp channel, one is soon sent a lyric from new song ‘Alone’: “ This is the end of every song that we sing… Where did it go? ”

It is expected that the fans will be sharing more new information and potentially new music via these channels.

AND THEN…#SONGSOFALOSTWORLD Posted by The Cure on  Monday, September 16, 2024

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The news comes ahead of the  release of two new songs as live recordings that will be a double A-side for climate charity ‘Earth Percent’ .

Released via  Naked Record Club – a record label that releases limited edition records on sustainable vinyl, ‘The Cure – Novembre: Live in France 2022’ is a double A-Side 12” Eco-Vinyl single featuring two live tracks (‘And Nothing Is Forever’ and ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’) that were recorded during the French leg of  the band’s ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour .

Back in 2022, The Cure also performed two other new tracks titled ‘Alone’ and ‘Endsong’ while kicking off their world tour . All of the unreleased songs are speculated to be featured on the band’s long-awaited new album, ‘ Songs Of A Lost World’.

In a  four-star review of their live performance at London’s OVO Arena Wembley during that year ,  NME noted Smith took the time to promise “that the new songs ‘won’t be new for much longer.’”

The review also described the new tracks, sharing: “The ticking clock piano rhythms and rolling bass of ‘A Fragile Thing’ accompany the promise that there’s “nothing you can do to change the end”, while ‘Endsong’ is a stunning, sprawling soundscape to portray Smith utterly lost in a universe where there’s “ Nothing left of all I loved ”.

“The truly devastating heart of the new material previewed comes with ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ – where howling guitars match the singer’s fear of ‘ shadows growing closer now ” as  “something wicked this way comes, to steal away my brother’s life’ . You feel that these songs are for those who mean the world to him.”

Speaking to  NME  backstage at the  BandLab NME Awards 2022 , Smith  took the time to exclusively confirm that The Cure’s next album would be titled ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ , sharing: “It’s got artwork, it’s got a running order, it’s almost done! They’re so slow because of vinyl, but it might come in September. I’d rather it just came out. I can’t stand the anticipation.”

He also revealed more about its sister record and his anticipated solo album. “So I’ve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,” he added. “Unfortunately, it’s the second one that’s finished. [On the other] I’ve got to do four vocals, and there are 10 songs on each album. We’re mixing next month on April 1, so I’ve got three weeks left.”

Asked about the sound of the upcoming records, Smith revealed: “Well the first Cure album is relentless doom and gloom. It’s the doomiest thing that we’ve ever done. The second one is upbeat, and my [solo] one won’t be out until next year.”

The frontman has long teased  the band’s long-awaited “merciless” new record , which keyboardist Roger O’Donnell previously described as “the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record we’ve ever made, and then we can just walk away from it… Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.”

Smith previously opened up about how losing his mother, father and brother has inspired the ‘darkness’ within the forthcoming album , telling The Los Angeles Times: “obviously it had an effect on me. It’s not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like ‘Disintegration’, I suppose. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound.”

He added: “The working title was ‘Live From the Moon’, because I was enthralled by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing in the summer. We had a big moon hanging in the studio and lunar-related stuff lying around. I’ve always been a stargazer.”

Speaking to NME about his hopes for the album, Smith said : “Before I used to write about stuff that I thought I understood. Now I know I understand it. The lyrics I’ve been writing for this album, for me personally, are more true. They’re more honest. That’s probably why the album itself is a little bit more doom and gloom. I feel I want to do something that expresses the darker side of what I’ve experienced over the last few years – but in a way that will engage people.”

The frontman added: “Some of the albums like ‘Pornography’ and ‘Disintegration’ are kind of relentless. I levelled ‘Disintegration’ with some songs like ‘Lullaby’ and ‘Lovesong’, but I think this one is more like ‘Pornography’ because it hasn’t got any of those songs that lighten the mood at all.”

Elsewhere, O’Donnell recently revealed that he was diagnosed with blood cancer last year . The band’s keyboardist shared the news last week (September 1) on the first day of Blood Cancer Awareness Month.

He took to his official X/Twitter account to reveal that he was “diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma” back in September 2023 and has since since recovered.

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Cosa sappiamo del nuovo album dei The Cure, che tutti attendono

Beh, sappiamo il titolo ( Songs of a lost world ), sappiamo la possibile data di uscita e sappiamo anche che...

Del nuovo album dei Cure , il seguito di 4:13 Dream che risale ormai al 2008, se ne parla da almeno quattro anni, ma la lavorazione va ancora più indietro nel tempo. Addirittura i dischi sarebbero in realtà due: quello vero e proprio della band, il cui titolo sarà Songs of a lost world (la cui durata dovrebbe essere di 67 minuti ), e poi quello solista di Robert Smith, che però non è chiaro se verrà mai alla luce considerando che nel 2022 il cantante del gruppo britannico disse che lo stava continuamente modificando e che dopo averlo ascoltato tre volte l’ha ritenuto «solo spazzatura». Nei giorni scorsi, sui canali social è apparso un nuovo logo The Cure su sfondo scuro e molte persone l’hanno interpretato come il preavviso dell’imminente uscita dell’album, definito qualche anno fa dal tastierista Roger O’Donnell (che proprio di recente ha annunciato che gli è stata diagnosticata una forma rara di linfoma, per la quale è stato in cura per undici mesi) come intenso, drammatico ed emozionante. E in effetti, una data ci sarebbe davvero: il primo novembre 2024.

Di Songs of a lost world , in realtà, si sa molto di più di quanto il rincorrersi di notizie e il roboante crescendo di aspettative lasci immaginare. I Cure, infatti, hanno suonato alcuni dei pezzi nuovi già durante il tour del 2022: And nothing is forever , Alone , Endsong , I can never say goodbye, Another happy birthday e A fragile thing , quest’ultima eseguita per la prima volta dal vivo al Forum di Assago nel novembre del ‘22. Due di queste tracce, And nothing is forever e I can never say goodbye , fanno parte di un 12 pollici stampato in vinile ecologico, intitolato Novembre: Live in France 2022, i cui proventi andranno in beneficenza a EarthPercent, associazione che si occupa della crisi climatica e dell’emergenza biodiversità. Le cinquemila copie numerate del doppio singolo , la cui data d’uscita è il primo ottobre, sono già andate esaurite: a darne notizia sui social è stato lo stesso Smith lo scorso 31 agosto, aggiungendo un sibillino «e poi…», che ovviamente ha fatto impazzire la comunità di fan.

Praticamente l’album più atteso della storia dei Cure è forse quello più spoilerato . Il che rende possibile farsi qualche idea su che cosa attendersi quando Songs of a lost world sarà distribuito in maniera ufficiale. A giudicare infatti da quanto si è ascoltato dal vivo – o su YouTube per chi non ha avuto la possibilità di assistere ai concerti – sembra proprio che il disco sarà musicalmente tetro, a tratti plumbeo, di sicuro alieno alle regole codificate dalle piattaforme streaming e dai social network : canzoni mediamente molto lunghe (altro che i classici due minuti e mezzo di strofa-ritornello-strofa che vanno per la maggiore), testi emozionali e, soprattutto, bassissime percentuali pop. Se Pornography , Disintegration e Bloodflowers , pur essendo lavori usciti a tanti anni di distanza fra loro, da sempre vengono considerati come indissolubili per via di una certa coerenza a livello di tematiche e di atmosfere, è probabile che Songs of a lost world possa rappresentare la quadratura del cerchio, trasformando così la trilogia dark dei Cure in una tetralogia. Tutto lo fa supporre. Nel 1982 Robert Smith si lasciava andare a una disperazione che pareva senza scampo, come emerge dalla strofa che chiudeva proprio Pornography («Devo combattere questa malessere, trovare una cura»), mentre nel 2018, in un’intervista al Guardian , l’artista rivelò: « Ero ottimista quando ero giovane, anche se scrivevo canzoni deprimenti. Ora però sono quasi l’opposto di ciò che ero . Ho una visione parecchio triste della vita». Oggi Robert magari non ha ancora trovato la cura, ma ha trovato nuovi modi per sublimare la sua tristezza.

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• Pictures of You
• Play for Today
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