The Curecelebrated the arrival of their long-awaited and much-acclaimed new albumSongs of a Lost Worldon Friday with a release-night, livestreamed London concert.
The three-hour concert, coming on the heels of a BBC gig two nights before, featured Robert Smith and company performing the new LP in order and in its entirety, including the live debut of album tracks War Song, Drone:Nodrone, and All I Ever Wanted.
The rest of the setlist included hits and fan favorites from the bands extensive catalog, as well as a section dedicated to the upcoming 45th anniversary of the Cures 1980 LPSeventeen Seconds, where they unearthed the track Secrets live for the first time since 2011.
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The 31-song concert concluded with an encore that boasted Friday Im in Love, Close to Me, and a show-ending Boys Dont Cry.
The words long awaited dont begin to do justice to the new Cure album.Songs of a Lost Worldis an album thats been promised, rumored, dangled, teased, longed for, despaired of, imagined, Rob Sheffieldwrote in his review of the album.
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Songs of a Lost Worldis the triumphant power-doom epic it needed to be, fully the Cures best sinceDisintegration, as Smith reaches into the depths of his cobwebbed heart, going deep into adult loss and grief.
The same day as the albums arrival, Smithtalked about his stance against predatory ticketing practicesthat the Cure employed on the bands North American tour.
