The band’s first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form – with the exception of one out-and-out pop banger
he Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band is serenely defied – maybe due to a diet rich in red wine, combined with a dogged aversion to modernity. Band leader Robert Smith does not own a smartphone; the band’s consumption of polyphenols in the 1980s was legendary.in 2018, Smith swiftly announced a new album for release in 2019.
Both of these bookends benefit from the emphatic pummel of Jason Cooper’s drum kit, driving home the message of inexorability. These tracks were written in response to a spate of losses among Smith’s family and friends pre-pandemic, but encompass the sucker punch of 2020-21 too; birds fall from the sky, nodding to the climate crisis.
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