Songs of a Lost World has no business being as good as it is. The Cure have been releasing music for well over forty years, and this is the band's fourteenth studio album. They're well past the point in their career where they could easily just play the hits, and maybe put out an album every five years or so that their fans listen to once and then forget about. It's a cliche joke at this point that fans use the new songs as a time to go to the bathroom and/or get another beer, but I can't imagine that being the case with any of these songs.
Of course, the negative part of Songs of a Lost World is that it feels like The Cure's final album. As much as Robert Smith insists it's not, the opening line of the album is "This is the end of every song that we sing," and the last song is called "Endsong." I guess we can't complain about a band nearing their fiftieth anniversary hanging it up, but... you know how it is. The album also feels like a career retrospective. They even have "Drone:Nodrone" which sounds similar to their 90's radio hits. The thought of a Cure-less world makes me as sad as their music is supposed to make me, but if this is the end, The Cure are going out with one of their all time best albums. I'm looking forward to hearing "Alone" and "A Fragile Thing" live as much as I am for their classics, and you can't say that about many bands.
Songs of note: "Alone," "A Fragile Thing," "Warsong," and "Endsong"
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