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Songs of a Lost World is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 1 November 2024 via Fiction, [4]: 113 Lost Music, Universal, [5] Polydor, and Capitol Records. [6] It is the band's first release of new material in 16 years since the release of 4:13 Dream in 2008.
In the United States, Songs of a Lost World debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, and was the band's first top ten album there since The Cure in 2004. [ 150 ] In October 2024, Smith said the Cure would release a follow-up album to Songs of a Lost World and tour in 2025, and would release a documentary in 2028. [ 151 ]
Neatly bridging the divide between The Cure’s post-punk origins and the proto-gothic atmospherics that would cloak their coming albums, “Play For Today” was solid support for fan favourite ...
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, [2] [3] Joy Division, [2] [3] [4] Bauhaus, [2] [3] and The Cure.
The Cure’s lineup remained in flux for years as Smith shifted the band’s sound from post-punk to goth to tuneful pop/rock, eventually writing massive Top 40 hits like 1987’s “Just Like ...
How The Cure’s ‘goth’ records redefined the genre. The Cure frontman Robert Smith has disputed claims that the group is a “goth” band. But the dark, romantic soul of goth runs through ...
"A Forest" and its parent album Seventeen Seconds are representative of The Cure's gothic rock phase in the late 1970s and 1980s. [1] [4] The song has also been described as a post-punk track. [5] [6] Cure biographer Jeff Apter refers to "A Forest" as "the definitive early Cure mood piece" and argues the song is the centrepiece of the album ...
In “Goth: A History," Tolhurst says he was inspired by the writings of Joan Didion — and so he weaves in first-person accounts while exploring goth music's origins from punk's anarchy. The ...