- 2024-11-04
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MUSIC
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The Cure Releases New Album “Songs Of A Lost World”
British rock band The Cure, consisting of Robert Smith (vocals/guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O'Donnell (keyboard), and Reeves Gabrels (guitar), released their fourteenth studio album “Songs Of A Lost World” on November 1, 2024 via Fiction Records.
It is their first album in 16 years since the 2008 album “4:13 Dream”.
Initially, the album was suppose to be released in 2019.
The band frontman Robert Smith said in an interview video, “If I have one regret it's that I said anything at all about it in 2019. I really shouldn't have done, because we only just started creating it. [It became] much more natural much more artistic.”
The album comprises 8 songs, written and produced by Robert Smith, with production by Paul Corkett.
The band planned for the album to contain 13 songs, but after trying 6 songs during their tour and tinkering with them in the studio afterwards, they trimmed the album down from 13 tracks to 8.- Robert Smith said, “I was imagining [with] this album, everything was going to be relentlessly downbeat and then a few people who I trust listened to it and said, 'It's too much, you can't expect people to listen to this much doom and gloom.' It is a much better record for it, because it has a bit of light and dark.”
He continued, “I don't think there was really an official beginning to this album because it's been kind of drifting in and out of my life for an awful long time. There are various points where I thought, 'I think we're going to make a new album.' And then... other things have happened and the idea's been pushed back.”
He added, “I was thinking we'll do something that sums up what the band is and where we've got to. It was a grand plan and grand plans generally don't work very well in my experience. It wasn't really being done for the right reasons.” -
Robert Smith explained about some tracks for the album.
“Alone”
“It's the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus. I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working with the simple idea of 'being alone', always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be... as soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem 'Dregs' by the English poet Ernest Dowson... and that was the moment when I knew the song and the album - were real.”
“And Nothing Is Forever”
“'And Nothing is Forever' is about a promise that I made to someone who was very ill that I would be with them when they died. And I wasn't. And because I wasn't, I wrote the song.”
“A Fragile Thing”
“'A Fragile Thing' is driven by the difficulties we face in choosing between mutually exclusive needs and how we deal with the futile regret that can follow these choices, however sure we are that the right choices have been made... it can often be very hard to be the person that you really need to be.
It's not really a love song in the way that love songs, of love song, it's about love. And how love is kind of like the most enduring of emotions. I think it's the most powerful emotion, and it's and it's incredibly resilient, and yet the same time, incredibly fragile. It doesn't that's paradoxical. I know it doesn't really make much sense, but I think, you know, what I mean, it's like, you feel sometimes you're in danger of destroying something, and yet you kind of know that it can't be destroyed. I struggled with that song to try and it was actually originally, it was called 'Kill the Sun', and it was a very different song, and it mutated into this song, which is very specific to me, I suppose. But I'm hoping that it resonates with other people because it's a universal thing.”
“I Can Never Say Goodbye”
“I wrote this song a lot of different ways, until I hit on a very simple narrative of what actually happened on the night he died.
Trying to achieve the right balance between the outpouring I had after the event, and just trying to take the right part of that and put it into a song. Some of the versions of that were so overwrought. I thought they were great, then I'd play them to people and they'd say, 'That's too much, you can't play that'. I realised I couldn't. Doing that song live, sometimes it would really break me up and it was really difficult to not go over the top.”
“Endsong”
“I remembered the feeling of, like, ‘I didn’t believe it’. I grew up in the glorious 30 years from the end of the Second World War - the world that I was born into was getting incrementally better every year. It just seemed that the world was on an upward trajectory and the moon landing was part of that. And around the time I turned 16 in ’75, it seemed like the world sort of stalled and it’s been travelling down ever since.” - source : Apple Music
