Songs of a Lost World is The Cure’s first album in 16 years. Reaching number one in the UK and now the US, some might argue ...

The Cure’s new single “Alone” is the band’s first since 2008. It preceded their latest album Songs of a Lost World, which arrived o 1. Frontman Robert Smith said in a statement, “It’s the track that ...

Musically, it’s textbook Cure, alternately mesmerizing with minor key piano (“A Fragile Thing ... (“Cold and afraid/the ghosts of all that we’ve been/we toast with bitter dregs/to our emptiness,” he ...

The record is a gorgeous, cathartic return to what the band does best, and especially satisfying after the Cure’s last two ...

“This is the end of every song that we sing,” croons Robert Smith — the Cure’s mascara-eyed frontman — at the beginning of “Alone,” the opener that sets the moody mood of the album ...

Sixteen years after the last Cure album, Robert Smith has created an unrelentingly serious and sad work unlike anything his band has done in the past.

Musically, it’s textbook Cure, alternately mesmerizing with minor ... toast with bitter dregs/to our emptiness,” he sings on “Alone”) and explores grief (“Something wicked this way ...

Songs of a Lost World is the triumphant power-doom epic it needed to be, fully the Cure’s best since Disintegration, as Smith ...

Cure fans have spent 16 years lighting candles ... “This is the end of every song I sing,” and closes with “Left alone with nothing at the end of every song.” In between, he gets dark.

Advertisement Songs of a Lost World begins with "Alone," which Smith earlier described as "the track that unlocked the record," and concludes with Track 8, "Endsong." The Cure had previously ...