New album before the end of March 20XXX!

What is it with this band promoting in Times Square?! One of the most horrendous places in the city!

It just so happens I will be within a few blocks of where this is tomorrow. Perhaps I will stroll up there tomorrow. But the last time I did that, the banner was already gone! The things we do for this band.

paleiko, where is the picture from?

My local Walmart had a number of new vinyl records in this weekend, no Cure.

I'm sure it will turn up eventually.

I am looking forward to hearing this, but I am playing Faith and 17 Seconds all this week to make up for its absence.

That's after wish, innit? 🙂

SOALW... Such a great body of work on so many levels..can't stop playing it and watched Troxy versiona twice... Considering the depressing era we find ourselves in a fantastic new collection of songs by Mr Smith and his merry gang is just  what the Dr ordered... Favourite song keeps changing but thus lp has been worth the tortuous wait... And hopefully the nxt one is quite near.. The mix is super every instrument breathes and I'm a big fan of the gnarly bass tones... 10/10...well done all.... Over and out

You made me realize that this is the first time I haven't been disappointed by a new album of The Cure. I started listening to them in 1992 and absolutely loved everything they had done. Wish was the latest, but for me they were all equally back catalogue.

The first time I witnessed a new studio album release was with Wild Mood Swings, which was quite a disappointment. And so were the following ones for me, even Bloodflowers (although I appreciate both WMS and Bloodflowers more now). Even more so the following two.

For me there's The Cure before WMS, a golden era, and The Cure from WMS onwards, the "hit and miss" era.

But this new album is absolutely no disappointment and is a proper return to form. For the first time my anticipation has been properly satisfied.

Oh, but they have always been fantastic live for me, even when the new material was hit and miss. The only exception was perhaps when they were a 4 piece.

How nice to read similar stories here ;-) The first *new and unexisting* album for me, after fallen in love with the back catalogue at that time, was Wish. I remember every second from ordering the CD to driving to the music store, from unpacking to listening song after song, sitting on the small chair in front of my parent's Pioneer hifi tower, underneath my headphones.

When WMS came out, I was in shock, in panic. What happened to the dark side and the funeral atmosphere? I heard trumpets announcing the end of a Cure era in which I had drowned for years as a struggle to survive youth and the world. Similar feelings with all albums that followed, all I could hear was happy happy happy but I wanted sad sad sad, and nights, and dark and suicidal bats.

However... Between 2008 and 2024 I started to rediscover the jewels that I missed, the gems I overlooked because I was too much focused on the to-joyful-to-be-from-the-cure album songs. Gems like Treasure (which brings me to tears instantly), Want (in its unique sauce of insatiable desire), but also More Than This (from X-files) and Dredd Song (from Judge Dredd) and There Is No If... (oh how I love the carving of that guitar before the 3rd chorus), The Loudest Sound (and its painful truths), Labyrinth and Going Nowhere (and their brutal honesty), Switch (and its schizofrenic on/off button), and last but not least the majestic The Scream (and its... well... eh... terrific scream).

If there's one TC lesson I learned over the years, it's one of gratitude for the basket of fruits I have being served by TC with the sole intention to pick my favorite ones, and leave some (the less attractive ones of course) for my friends ;-) I learned to stop being angry at the pile of fruit because of that one, little, silly worm. It's a living being after all.

And here I am, more than 3 decades after listening to my first TC song (and it prescribed no crying), endulged in the juice of the fresh The Cure fruit, all looking tasteful like never before, and of which nothing is left for my friends, since I ate them all.

thebighand : You're absolutely right, there seems to be 2 TC era. In my case the 2nd one started the day my expectations grew too high and I was only looking for more of the same instead of more bewilderment. Today I believe there is only one TC era and we're experiencing it since the very first TC encounter, with ups and downs along the musical road.

justlikeheaven : I couldn't agree more, "There is not a single bad song for me on this album, each song has its place and is a part of the story." Let's hope the coming albums RS promised also have some rotten apples, if not, we'll all suffer from indigestion I'm afraid.