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@BoyVertiginous @FalkirkFC To be expected from you 😀

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👏 A massive thank you to the 1,200 Bairns in Aberdeen this afternoon!

🚌 Save travels home Bairns.

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A bit late to @TheWavePictures party, but what an excellent night at @stereoglasgow

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The Stranglers at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on Thursday, followed by The Psychedelic Furs at the Barrowlands on Friday. Support at the Furs was Anje Huwe, which was excellent.
Two great gigs over the couple of days.

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Supergrass on form (as always) at the Barrowlands for I Should Co Co 30th anniversary.
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@bookauthority @Detroit67Book Wow, how appropriate as I'm just about to start reading it.

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@MrPaulSimpson1 @JawbonePress Currently being read and a thoroughly good read it is too

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Songs Of A Lost World - The Cure - review

The internet had a cataclysmic effect on the legacy music industry in the early years of this century, rendering The Cure’s Bloodflowers and 4:13 Dream albums apparently underperforming. Indeed frontman Robert Smith now says 2004’s Rick Rubin-produced self-titled Cure album is his least favourite in the band’s catalogue.

While every Cure album since their early days has been hailed as their last, Songs Of A Lost World seems to have learned Smith hero David Bowie’s strategy of ‘the mysterious-hype release drop’, leading to SOALW gaining 4 million Spotify listens in its first few hours. Smith has been mentioning the album in interviews since 2019 - something he also regrets, making the band a hostage to fortune as that can do.

But the final result, all its tracks having been played live on their extensive recent tours, is a sleek, smooth, glacial, mature collection of prime Cure-sound songs. Smith has said A Fragile Thing is the album’s ‘love song’, but his lyric writing has always been so allegorical and oblique as to make even the more political Drone:Nodrone sound like a love song - in this case the singer objecting to the intrusive machines flying over his house.

Lead track Alone was trailed for weeks before the album’s release, its stately bird-guitar sounds and reflective strut placing it between Disintegration’s exquisite Plainsong and The Head On The Door’s Sinking.

And Nothing Is Forever is musically this reviewer’s highpoint, Simon Gallup’s elastic bass dancing beautifully with Perry Bamonte and Roger O’ Donnell’s keyboard washes, resulting in a chromatically beguiling, repeated chord change, pulsating through the song.

After a career of being artistically inspired by the subject of death - leading to his much disliked ‘Godfather of Goth’ tag - Smith lost several members of his family in the years leading up to the album, and his late brother is directly eulogised in I Can Never Say Goodbye. So no The Lovecats or Friday I’m In Love on Songs Of A Lost World; but those songs were actually from that lost world, whereas this one seems to be about continually refining The Cure’s sound and atmosphere into the monochromatic, gnarly, emotional, single-minded six-piece they have become.

From 1979’s Killing An Arab - their debut single sadly no longer being played at their live shows - to 1989’s Disintegration, The Cure were arguably the world’s strangest, most compelling and unique ‘big band’ - but it did take them that time to become big. As Smith said back then: ‘I don’t think we’ll ever be mainstream; unless the mainstream changes to us’.

Disarmingly ‘based’ in interviews, even with iconic make-up still in place, Robert Smith appears to have lightened up as an individual, even while now going through the pains of others’ passing. At the same time he appears to love The Cure more than anything, and despite the ever-increasing gaps of years between albums, his band have proven in sound what single-minded artistic determination is all about.

Listen to Songs Of A Lost World here: https://t.co/9oONNXtu5m

#TheCure #SONGSOFALOSTWORLD #albumreview

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APB had to cross the pond to find their greatest success—thanks, in part, to forward-thinking DJs at WLIR. The rest is a piece of alt-rock history. https://t.co/jfci3SDHrO

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@TimMcKenna01 Well earned Tim. It's been great following your adventure. Well done.

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@Tim_Burgess Morning Tim. What a great reminder of the excellent Fad Gadget. Well, that's today's play list sorted.

[Archie Rhind-Tutt @archiert1]

Danes singing: “You’re just a shit part of Scotland.” Brutal.

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@E_McKenzie1970 My wife is similar, though not reached that level of Blair Witchedness yet ... only a matter of time.

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@TimMcKenna01 Enjoy Tim.

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"shaking hands with the NME" is out today! 🎈
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We're incredibly proud of this record and hope that you grow to love these songs as much as we do.
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You can stream or buy a copy of the album on vinyl or CD from:

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“shaking hands with the NME” is released via Last Night From Glasgow a week today! ⭐️

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