2024-09-26 12:47:32
The cure has not released anything new for 16 years – until now. “Only” is received as a message from heaven with secret numbers and spirits. Is the world’s biggest goth band kidding?
His songs never sounded good. The cure put to music in sadness with a world that is interesting for young people in the 1980s. In their poetry they contrast with the romanticism of Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, Mary Shelley’s Gothic and the existentialism of Albert Camus and “cold indifference to the world “.
Even Robert Smith, their singer, is anything but happy with his bird’s-eye hair, his smudged eyeliner and his lyrics: “I said I love you / You don’t say a word / You just hold your hand in front of your face me / I see how the rain runs through my fingers.” Oh, yes.
16 years ago, their last album ended with the song “It’s Over”. And that’s it, over, until this Wednesday in the fall of 2024. New music will be released. “Only” it is perfect and it seems to be still. As if playing in an empty room, the instruments blaring, three and a half minutes into the prelude, Robert Smith sings as he cries: “The fire has burned to ashes / The stars are clouded with tears / Cold and in fear / Spirits of all that we are / Let us be emptied of our bitter tendencies.”
Seriously?
However, the music is not entirely new. The cure never left the concert tours. They do their work all over the world and have been playing “Only” for two years. Smith even smiled on YouTube. If they put “Only” into the world as a message from heaven, two days before Instagram prepared with an example in front of storm clouds, the question arises: are they important?
The song is featured not on YouTube, Apple or Spotify, but on BBC Radio 6 Music, online. On the other hand, the group has set up a homepage, www.songsofalost.aye. On it, a Khmer numeral rotates on its own above the Roman numerals I-XI-MMXXIV. It is the access code to the site. But what does it mean? Is the Cure helping today’s youth who can no longer read Roman numerals? November 1st, 2024 is Friday, new albums are released in the last record stores and as stream on Fridays, the new Cure album will probably be called “Songs of the Lost World “.
Today everyone is doing a digital scavenger hunt like this to get people in the mood for their brains of genius. From Taylor Swift to Linkin Park. The cure was already amused in 2008 when a number of mystics performed on “4:13 Dream”, their 13th and last album to date. Like in the 80s with “10:15 Saturday Night”. What is the cross value of I-XI-MMXXIV? And what does that mean?
Anyone who listens to “Only”, irony by the irony that no one will believe is strong that Robert Smith, a melancholy son of the eighties from Sussex, enjoys. “All the songs we sing are limited / Where did you go / Where did you live / Where did you live / The broken voice is calling us home we are crying / This is the end of all the songs we sing, alone. Good stuff, successful comedy.
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