Troxy, LondonMaterial from new album Songs of a Lost World fits perfectly amid two hours’ worth of back-catalogue hits, all performed with giddy intensityTwo hours into the Cure’s relatively intimate launch gig for new album Songs of a Lost World, Robert Smith begs the sound desk not to use the tape of thunder and rain that has been shaking the jaded grandeur of the Troxy while the band were offstage between encores. “It’s a bit Hammer Horror,” he says. “Play some sunshine.”Summoning the emotional weather, in all its light and darkness, is what the Cure do so wonderfully tonight. Smith has always sung of the anxiety of mortality and desire. And although, sonically, Songs of a Lost World could have come out at any point over the past few decades, it suggests that honing your craft can be more interesting than reinvention for the sake of it. Continue reading...