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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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Oct 18, 2024The music on Songs of a Lost World feels more direct and purposeful than either of its immediate predecessors. Even the slowest tracks have a bruising impact, courtesy of the rhythm section.
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Oct 31, 2024Songs of a Lost World is just eight tracks long, although it’s so immersive you’ll lose track of time.
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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 15, 2024While Songs Of A Lost World is not as angry as Pornography or as claustrophobic as Disintegration, it instead possesses an immersive, graceful beauty and more energy than you might expect. [Dec 2024, p.113]
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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 6, 2024Whether Songs of a Lost World sounds like wallowing distilled into rock music (like on the despondent “Warsong”) or writhes with restless aggression (like on “Drone:Nodrone,” which ironically features the hardest hitting riff of the set), The Cure prove they haven’t lost their knack for turning their turmoil into wildly expressive compositions.
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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.