Is the end here for the Cure?

[MattK]

https://www.songsofalost.world
I XI MMXXIV

[wrath]

Really excited for this release.

The new songs that have been played on tour are all really strong. End song in particular captures this sense of pervasive doom which permeates through everything.

[Alex!]

Personally, I think Robert Smith should stop with The Cure and just do solo stuff. That’s just me
Edit- I love The Cure, but at the same time it’s not the same

[eggwheat]

Im sure it will be better than the last two crappy albums, which wouldn't be hard.

It is amazing how they've kept such a high profile despite not releasing anything at all for 16 years and nothing decent for 30 years! In fact only 4 albums in 30 years..and each one getting progressively worse, till they effectively gave up trying. He realised he's lost it writing wise and just concentrated on The Cure becoming a legacy touring act..and a very good job they did of that too.

From what Ive heard, this sounds like a revisit of Bloodflowers production and style.

[budda12ax7]

I always thought Simon would be a great bass player for Nirvana .....

[Bradley-Jazz]

Official single release incoming... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/ ... ears-alone

[Plumerai]

The single is better than other recent output, but doesn't really grab me like the pre WMS songs. I'm glad there isn't any Reeves noodling in it, but it could use a solo. The full album is available for pre-order now.

[sugarandopium]

The single is SO GOOD.
This is going to be the best record since bloodflowers.

I saw the 22-23 tour and the 4 songs live a few times and they all sounded so good.
The most VI action on stage in a long time (granted RS is all schecter vi these days, though reeves breaks out the fender) but the new songs are all bass vi heavy.
They were also the best set lists since the dream tour.

Im a life long curehead who lost a lot of faith in RS thru the 05-10 era.
'It can never be the same' was refreshing, but that was really all that impressed me from 10-22.
This record on the other hand, I think this is what many of us have been waiting 20yr for.
I feel like a refreshed reinvigorated cure fan again.

[sugarandopium]

Posted his rig from the recording sessions in 2019

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYrZWrMLIG/

[Alex!]

The single is actually great. Maybe this is isn’t the end for the Cure

[budda12ax7]

I like the new song....sounds very dense

[wrath]

They've shared the little snippet for endsong as well.

Was my fave of the new songs debuted on tour. The studio version sounds very shoegazey compared to the live version.

[eggwheat]

The single is better than other recent output, but doesn't really grab me like the pre WMS songs. I'm glad there isn't any Reeves noodling in it, but it could use a solo. The full album is available for pre-order now.

Yes it's definitely better than those last two atrocious records...It seems to be very similar to WMS/Bloodlflowers sound..even uses some of the same string samples. It was nice to hear him actually singing an actual vocal melody that that over emotive parody voice he's developed. I think there are some odd choices..like the distorted bass sounds really out of place and the low end of the mix is overpowering...seems to be some guitar but it's completely buried.

Overall an improvement but still not up there with their best imo...It good they've finally released it. 16 years ago since the last and only released 4 new albums records in the last 34 years! Shows how good those first nine albums were the fact they could hold onto and grow new fans with so few releases and nothing in there that matched the heights of those first nine records.

[burpgun]

As a Cure fan of nearly 40 years standing I'm excited for this album in a way I haven't been since Wish, the last thing they did that got my attention. First single is very good and solid and the fragment of Endsong seems like it brings the Disintegration doom. I think the band had as good a run through the 80s as any group could and it's been decades since they did anything of note, and that's fine, even the best bands can only keep the heat for a while. If they've got one last great album in them it would be a really nice coda to the story.

[sugarandopium]

As a Cure fan of nearly 40 years standing I'm excited for this album in a way I haven't been since Wish, the last thing they did that got my attention. First single is very good and solid and the fragment of Endsong seems like it brings the Disintegration doom. I think the band had as good a run through the 80s as any group could and it's been decades since they did anything of note, and that's fine, even the best bands can only keep the heat for a while. If they've got one last great album in them it would be a really nice coda to the story.

I think all of us older fans feel that way about this release!!


This is the album we've all been wanting him to make for the past 30 years.


All the reviews have been confirming that thought!



Latest one published yesterday;
"As it turns out, Smith and co were busy making their Dark Side of the Moon: an atmospheric, sophisticated, thoroughly English portrait of death, disintegration and things falling apart, rich in melodrama and bombast. “I could die tonight of a broken heart,” Smith sings, in that strangely youthful voice of his, on A Fragile Thing, a statement typical of an album on which everything is raised to heights of importance."