“Can somebody check on Robert Smith? Usually, angst is seen as a characteristic that mellows with age, especially when it comes to music. It’s basically a cliché for goth, emo, and punk icons turn to folk or jazz or book tours as their hair starts to grey and their youthful, rebellious fire slowly cools off. Not Mr. Smith, though, whose hair is as jet black as ever and whose songwriting remains pro”
“The West Sussex legends' first album of new material since 4:13 Dream maps out the hours, minutes, seconds of our 16 years apart, playing back the sound of surviving the death of a planet, hoping that Robert Smith’s voice is there with us as the ground goes cold.”
“On Songs of a Lost World Robert Smith reaches into the depths of his cobwebbed heart; it’s the best Cure album since Disintegration”
“as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’”
“The Cure’s patience pays off on Songs Of A Lost World”
“Sixteen years after their last album, Robert Smith & co. return at their own glacial pace. Sounding regal, weary, and deliciously slow, they grapple with mortality and doubt as only they could.”
