The Cure Returns After 16 Years With ‘Songs for a Lost World’: Review

If I told you 40 years ago, when the Cure was in the midst of its new-wave wonder moment, that the band would craft an inventively elegiac epic like “Songs for a Lost World” — a singular record worthy of face-soaking tears — you would have broken my teasing comb and melted down my Kohl eyeliner. Though the bleakly beloved Robert Smith was notorious for tensely flanged, existential…