The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World

And after a whole 16 years, this new album from the Cure comes out, which has very little truly “new” about it.
Dark and gloomy atmospheres, even excessive ones (Nothing new under the sun)... even in the duration of certain tracks that, honestly, would make anyone who approaches this band for the first time want to slit their wrists.
After the terribly boring “Alone,” which was the album’s forerunner (with an intro of over 3 minutes!!)... the other tracks follow suit, full of brightness and vitality... no, sorry, I got confused with that of Jovanotti.
A feeling of disorienting alienation scattered across 8 very sad and hopeless songs. And it's quite something to see them live, especially the singer, with that smudged makeup and horror movie hair: it’s really pathetic that someone on the verge of 70 is reduced to this adolescent charade as if to prolong an adolescence that never ended.
Oh well... everyone has their unresolved traumas.

1. Alone
2. And Nothing Is Forever
3. A Fragile Thing
4. Warsong
5. Drone: Nodrone
6. I Can Never Say Goodbye
7. All I Ever Am
8. Endsong

Anyway, the entire album is on YouTube, and I would spend your money on much better purchases, like Beth Gibbon's album, the former Portishead singer, which beats this one hands down in terms of modernity, class, and exploration. Although that one isn't such a “bright” album either, but you know: the world is going to hell, and here we all are speeding up the process.
PS: Beth's album is also on YouTube, here.

Oh well, but what's the point of releasing albums anymore, I wonder? Oh well, but anyone can always turn to me and say “Who the hell are you? Who do you think you are?” and they’d have every right to, for God's sake and for heaven's sake!