Friday, September 27, 2024
Reeves plays Rochester
From Reeves Gabrels:
GIG & FESTIVAL ALERT - Monday, 7 Oct, 9pm - With DOOM DOGS, I'll play genre-free improv in Rochester, NY to kick off AVANT GARDE A CLUE, a FREE festival of experimental music w/250 acts running Oct 7-13. Venue is 75 Stutson Street.
Photo: Adam Arritola
https://facebook.com/events/s/avant-garde-a-clue/877747063971473/
Alone edit
From Aaron Law:
Not sure if it was mentioned but Jo Whiley played a radio edit of Alone yesterday which knocked 2 minutes off it...First track of the show so not long to wait!
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Marble Vinyl
In addition to all of the other editions of the album, there also a limited edition Marble version at indie record stores. The email sent out links to Venus Vinyl, but is available from many indie stores.
LIMITED INDIES EDITION MARBLE VINYL
Release Date: 1st November 2024
"’SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ is the long-awaited new album from The Cure, their 14th studio release and their first in 16 years. 'SONGS OF A LOST WORLD' was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett and performed by The Cure - Robert Smith: Voice / guitar / 6string bass / keyboard, Simon Gallup: Bass, Jason Cooper: Drums / percussion, Roger O'Donnell: Keyboard, Reeves Gabrels: Guitar. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Robert Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time Cure collaborator, handled the album's art and design. The cover art features 'Bagatelle', a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat."
Official site is back
Thecure.com is back and fully updated. Including this from the bio:
In 2024 Robert Smith finally turned his mind to finishing one of the albums recorded in 2019. Mixing with Paul Corkett (Bloodflowers and longtime Cure FOH Sound), the songs chosen for the first release were finally completed in August. As an appetiser, a live 12” single Novembre: Live In France 2022, featuring new songs And Nothing Is Forever and I Can Never Say Goodbye was released October 1st to benefit Earthpercent. The Cure once again signed to Fiction Records for the much anticipated November 1st release of Songs Of A Lost World... and then...
Lost World pre-orders & merch
The Cure store (US , UK, Euro) has all of your various Lost World formats for pre-ordering and lots of new merch too.
Robert talks about Alone
From Contactmusic:
The Cure have announced their first new album in 16 years.
The 'Boys Don't Cry' rockers - whose last album was 2008's '4:13 Dream' - will be back with a fresh collection when 'Songs of a Lost World' drops on November 1.
They have been playing new song 'Alone' on their recent 90-date world tour, and the single - which is also the opening track of the upcoming LP - is now available to stream.
Reflecting on the song, frontman Robert Smith said in a statement: "It's the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus."
He admitted he had been finding it difficult to settle on "the right opening line" for the first song of the album, and in the end it was 'Dregs' by poet Ernest Dowson which helped everything fall into place.
He added: "I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working with the simple idea of ‘being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be…
"As soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs' by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the moment when I knew the song - and the album - were real."
The cover art for the new album features 'Bagatelle', a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat, while Cure's longtime collaborator Andy Vella handled the artwork and design.
The tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, and the group will be unveil the full tracklist "over the coming weeks, having showcased some of the tunes on their recent tour.
As well as a single LP and CD, the new album will also be available as "a Miles Showell Abbey Road half-speed master 2LP", plus a mable-coloured LP, double cassette, and a deluxe CD package with a Blu-ray including an instrumental version of the collection as well as a Dolby Atmos mix.
FNAC preorders
Songs of a Lost World already up for pre-order at FNAC.
https://www.fnac.com/o11471688/Songs-Of-A-Lost-World/w-4
CD
2CD & Blu-ray
Vinyl
Marble Vinyl
Alone release day!
The Cure releases 'Alone', their first single in 16 years at noon BST/7am Eastern/4am Pacific.
Pre-save here - thecure.lnk.to/Alone
But before that, ""The Cure's 'Alone' will debut on Mary Anne Hobbs‘s BBC Radio 6Music show on September 26, between 10.30am and 1pm GMT. Further details about the Songs of a Lost World album will also be revealed that day."
You can listen online here.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Songs of a Lost World is out there
From The Tongue of Kai:
Some promos of the album got sent out to a selected group of journos. So expect some reviews in the next couple of days. :D
From Richard Bellia:
Songs of a Lost World was played in its entirety to about ten journalists in a Universal Paris office this afternoon. One of them was seen crying while listening, "it's so beautiful"
Monday, September 23, 2024
B-sides? Physical release?
From what The Tongue of Kai has heard, no. Not confirmed, just what he's heard.
"There are no B-Sides and no physical releases for the singles. Doesn't make any sense anymore these days anyway. Singles are digital releases only."
Pre-save Alone
And you can pre-save Songs of a Lost World here - https://thecure.lnk.to/SongsOfALostWorld
Pre-save The Cure's Alone here - https://thecure.lnk.to/Alone
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