The Cure Reveal New Live Album 'Songs Of A Live World'

The Cure have announced a companion live album to accompany their first album in 16 years, Songs Of A Lost World.

Released last month (1 November), the band officially announced the release of the album in late September after teasing something new on their website. The Cure launched Songs Of A Lost World with a concert at the Troxy in London, livestreamed globally on YouTube. That concert, now dubbed Songs Of A Live World: Troxy London MMXXIV, will be released as a live album on Friday, 13 December.

The band announced the live album on Instagram today (2 December) and revealed that frontman Robert Smith remixed it. Songs Of A Live World is available to pre-order on vinyl, CD, and cassette via The Cure’s website. All profits from the live album will be donated to the UK charity, War Child.

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The live album features Songs Of A Lost World performed in its entirety. However, at the show at the Troxy, The Cure played a three-hour, career-spanning 31-song set, including a surprise five-song throwback to their 1980 second album, Seventeen Seconds.

You can watch the concert below.

Songs Of A Lost World reached #5 on the ARIA Albums Chart and topped the charts in Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, and other European countries. It also took the top spot in the UK, becoming their first album since 1992’s Wish to reach #1 in the UK. Songs Of A Lost World has been one of the fastest-selling albums of the year. At one point, it outsold the entire top 10 of the week combined.

In October, The Cure released the singles, And Nothing Is Forever, and I Can Never Say Goodbye on eco-vinyl.

The songs were shared as part of a release called Novembre: Live In France 2022. And Nothing Is Forever was recorded at Sud de France Arena, Montpellier, on Tuesday, 8 November 2022. I Can Never Say Goodbye was recorded five days later at the Zénith Toulouse Métropole.

Meanwhile, Songs Of A Lost World was preceded by the singles Alone and A Fragile Thing.