This new album from The Cure – the first since 2008! – has been a long time coming. During these long years, the band fronted by Robert Smith, the only original member of the 1979 line-up, played their music all over the world. We’d almost come to think of them as those dinosaurs who run out of ideas, spinning out their repertoire without ever coming up with new songs.

And yet, in 2022, during yet another extraordinary tour which passed through Paris on November 22, we heard several previously unreleased songs. Their quality reassured us of the inspiration of Smith, a pop demiurge who has spanned four decades without denying himself. We could then believe in the rumors of a new album, which rustled around every autumn.

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