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More than 16 years after releasing “4:13 Dream”, the Cure is back with a new album – and critics say it’s the band’s best work since the smash 1989 album “Disintegration”.
“Smith’s lyrical focus and baroque songcraft make the new album, “Songs of a Lost World” the band’s best album since its masterpiece Disintegration,” according to the Washington Post. “After a half century of searching in the shadows for answers about love, life and death, [frontman Robert] Smith has seemingly found what he was looking for … whether that provides any solace or not.”
The album, which is available now, also finds the 65-year-old Smith lamenting his age. “I’m outside in the dark, wondering how I got so old,” he sings in “Endsong,” the album’s closer.
