Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:It's like the band's collective sense of aesthetics and taste completely deserted them overnight somewhere in the mid 2000s.

I don't like Bloodflowers as an album but I'd say that period is the last time the band still kind of felt a bit like The Cure, even though many of the key members (Lol, Boris Porl) had long since moved on.

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https://consequence.net/2022/03/the-cur ... ost-world/

The Cure’s long-awaited new album is titled Songs of a Lost World, frontman Robert Smith has revealed.

Speaking to NME ahead of last night’s NME Awards, Smith said the 10-song album is nearly finished, with the aim of releasing it as early as September. He described the music as “relentlessly doom and gloom.”

Smith said he has a three-week deadline to record the final four vocals, as mixing is scheduled to begin the first week of April. Along with the title, he’s also settled on the album’s artwork and tracklist.

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Smith also confirmed he still intends to drop a solo album under his own name. He previously described it as an “hour-long noise record,” but grew “disenchanted” with it. After adding real instruments, including acoustics, Smith said the album is now “upbeat.” He added, “It’s a thing I’ve wanted to do for so many years. It’s my one shot of doing it.” As Smith is primarily focused on The Cure’s music at the moment, the solo record likely won’t be released until 2023.

Jorge wrote:Posting it for Spenno who is a huge fan of this guy

tree_ wrote:looks like to me he was just doing like a breathing thing and getting mentally ready

not awkward

Jorge wrote:The Cure’s deluxe reissue of “Wish” to include 21 unreleased demos, “Lost Wishes” EP

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2022/0 ... e-edition/

The second disc will feature 21 previously unreleased demos, comprised of four studio vocal demos from 1990 and 17 instrumental demos from 1991, nine of which are completely unrelaxed songs.

And the third disc includes the Lost Wishes EP, which never have been released on CD or digitally, plus the previously unreleased song “A Wendy Band” from the band’s Manor Studio sessions in 1992, a previously unheard mix of “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea,” five 12-inch mixes and a previously unrelaxed live version of “End” recorded in Paris in October 1992.