It’s rarely rained since The Cure’s 1979 debut Three imaginary boysbut on Songs from a Lost World the sun is completely hidden behind dark thunderclouds. Robert Smith, singer, guitarist and songwriter, has every reason to do so. In the sixteen years (!) between this fourteenth studio album and the previous one, he lost both his parents, uncles, aunts and Richard, his older brother, who gave him his first guitar lessons.

This results in an inspired, emotional and raw album where pain audibly drips from the gutters. The pace is slow, the emphasis is on atmosphere, with full, bloated walls of sound and dark lyrics filled with frustration, loss and a sense of insignificance in the greater scheme of time and space. Here mourning is transformed into heavy music.

As he mourns, he seeks support in love, human connection, and nostalgia. In the eighties and early nineties – when their gothic rock was all the rage – the band sometimes scored a hit with lighter songs such as Friday, I’m in love on Close to methe band has become over the past decade a treasured live act among the elderly, one that has always continued to pursue its own, bucking course.

Met Songs from a Lost World After several weaker albums, the band members show that they are completely relevant again. It’s one of the best albums of their career, alongside classics like Disintegration c pornography past.

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