Songs Of A Lost World.

The album that’s been talked about in our office more than any other this year, The Cure exceeded all our expectations for their first album in 16 years. We knew it’d be good but an album that ranks amongst their very best? It may well be! It's dripping with a certain melancholia that only The Cure know how to masterfully produce, Robert Smith's eternally youthful vocal and Simon Gallup's signature basslines sounding as fresh as ever. It’s a joy to hear Robert and co on such fine form, even if tracks such as “And Nothing Is Forever” and “Endsong’ vie for gloomiest songs of the year.