Songs Of A Lost World  by The Cure

Sixteen whole years (!) after the last discographic effort of The Cure, we have in 2024 the band's discographic return with new material with the album Songs Of A Lost World, which becomes the fourteenth official studio album of The Cure. In the five-member composition of the group, we now find only Simon Gallup on bass and Robert Smith on vocals from the original composition of The Cure and the exclusive composition of the eight songs of the album. This had not happened since 1985 with the album The Head On The Door.

The initial intention was for the album to be ready in 2019, but eventually its recording lasted from 2019 to 2022. Robert Smith wanted to write a dark gothic album and he succeeded. The songs stem from personal experiences, such as I Can Never Say Goodbye, which draws inspiration from the death of his brother, or Endsong which is the composer's memory of watching the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 together with his father. The album's production was done by Smith and Paul Corkett, with whom The Cure had collaborated in the past - since the mid-1990s. The sculpture that adorns the cover of Songs Of A Lost World is a work by Slovenian sculptor Janez Pirnat, which was made in 1975 and is called "Bagatelle".

Songs Of A Lost World reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom and became gold by completing 100,000 sales either in physical form or digitally.