Oh No! THE CURE Release A Remixed Edition Of ‘SONGS FROM A LOST WORLD By Dance/Ambient Musicians In June
22 April 2025
Last year goth Gods THE CURE launched their 14th LP,
their first in 16 years, titled SONGS OF A LOST WORLD.
It was named Turn Up The Volume‘s best album of 2024.
TUTV: “In the past 16 years Robert Smith lost his mother, father, and brother.
All the painful experiences surrounding these impactful, indelible passings led
to this brilliant, gloomy record. One long emotionally layered lament, one that
seems to work liberating in the end.
Sonically, it resonates as if you’re part of a funeral march that progresses in slow motion,
just the way the music evolves. The most drastically soul-stirring record I heard all year, accentuating how sorrow can overwhelm and hurt one’s heart and mind. It’s a universal experience that millions, and millions of people who lost loved ones – past, present and
future – can relate to.”
SONGS OF A LOST WORLD
Yesterday the band’s orchestrator Robert Smith celebrated his 66th birthday and announced a remixed edition of that masterpiece, named Mixes Of A Lost World .
A massive collection of remixes — two discs for the standard edition, three discs
for the deluxe — by artists including Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Chino Moreno, Mura
Masa, Mogwai, the Twilight Sad, Orbital, Daniel Avery, 65daysofstatic, and more. It
lands on June 13th.
The royalties from the album will benefit WAR CHILD UK, the charity organisation driven
by a single goal – ensuring a safe future for every child living through war. Lots of projects were/are now launched to collect funds for the young victims in the horrible Gaza war.
Robert Smith send this message to the world (yes in capitals): “JUST AFTER CHRISTMAS I WAS SENT A COUPLE OF UNSOLICITED REMIXES OF ‘SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ TRACKS AND I REALLY LOVED THEM. THE CURE HAS A COLOURFUL HISTORY WITH ALL KINDS OF DANCE MUSIC, AND I WAS CURIOUS AS TO HOW THE WHOLE ALBUM WOULD SOUND ENTIRELY REINTERPRETED BY OTHERS.
THIS CURIOSITY RESULTED IN A FABULOUS TRIP THROUGH ALL 8 SONGS BY 24 WONDERFUL ARTISTS AND REMIXERS AND IS WAY BEYOND ANYTHING I COULD HAVE HOPED FOR. GIVING OUR RECORDING ROYALTIES FROM THE PROJECT TO WAR CHILD HELPS MAKE ‘MIXES OF A LOST WORLD’ AN EVEN MORE SPECIAL RELEASE.”
What the fuck. Why Smith wants to destroy a deeply personal and grieving record
with, mostly, ambient/dance/trip-hop remixes is beyond me. Why wreck heart-and-soul touching songs and turning them in a sort of sinister party soundtrack. The first taster by Four Tet (hear below) says it all.
I have no intention whatsoever to listen to the upcoming, insensible arty farty rubbish.
But that’s just me. It’s none of my business, of course, what Smith wants to do or not.
The one and only absolute great thing here is that all royalties will benefit War Child UK.
