The project marks the band’s second UK chart-topping album
The Cure has scored a No. 1 album on the Official UK charts with their first release in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World. The project, released on November 1st, sold over 50,000 copies in its first week in the country and marks their second UK top-charting project after 1992’s Wish.
“It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album – to everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – THANK YOU!” the band’s Robert Smith shares.
A week ago, The Cure performed their only scheduled show of the year at Troxy in London, which is available to stream for a limited time on The Cure’s YouTube page.
To celebrate the album’s release, BBC TV & Radio are hosting Cure related programming, including their Glastonbury performance, 1984 Glasgow concert, 1985 Birmingham concert, That Was Then…This is Now: The Cure Documentary about The Cure, and much more.
Initially formed in 1978, The Cure has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, headlined the Glastonbury festival four times and been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. They are considered to be one of the most influential bands to ever come out of the UK.
Songs of a Lost World was written and arranged by Robert Smith, and produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett. It 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.
