New Album from the Cure is the Band’s Best Since ‘Disintegration’

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 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. “No, I don’t belong here anymore.”

The band performed the entire album live back on November 1st in London. The performance was live streamed, which you can watch above!