The Cure’s Robert Smith on grief, death and new album Songs Of A Lost World

Lyrically it finds Smith trying again on his personal life, “remembering the hopes and goals I had”; questioning what “grew to become of that boy”, and the way he “acquired so outdated”.

Basic melancholy on paper maybe, however reside it sounds brutally trustworthy, unapologetically raging and resigned in equal measure.

Elsewhere, the temper of the set was celebratory and really a lot alive: crammed with fan favourites and best hits, from the languid heartbreak of Photos of You to the poppier sounds of Inbetween Days and Simply Like Heaven.

The band themselves additionally appeared in good spirits, exchanging smiles, with Smith playfully dancing round through the encore that included Shut To Me and Lullaby.

Pleasure within the face of recent materials that, in locations, sounds darker than ever ought to maybe come as no shock.

“I’ve hated the thought of getting a set time for a profession”, Smith informed the NME in 1983 as he turned 25. “I believe it’s horrible. I suppose it’s as a result of I’m getting older and feeling my age.”

Smith just lately steered to The Occasions, exterior that the band might come to an finish round their fiftieth anniversary in 2028, by which period he will probably be round 70.

Chatting with Stephens, he steered, with a dry snigger, that he is “not going to get” to that milestone age and would as an alternative be “actually joyful” to see Christmas.

However Smith informed Uncut that the band have three albums near-completion following their intensely productive 2019 recording classes.

He provides to Stephens that he is “virtually there” with the second album. “As soon as I’ve accomplished that, then I shall take a deep breath after which I’ll search for, however till I end it I’m not bothering about what comes subsequent.”

Time waits for no-one, however Smith and The Remedy are actually not prepared to face nonetheless.