The Cure Will Release “Mixes of Last World” Featuring Stars
The Cure will bring new life into their acclaimed 2024 “Songs of a Lost World” with the arrival of “Mixes of a Lost World.” The new album is a remix project curated by frontman Robert Smith. The 24-track album, due June 13 via Fiction/Capitol Records, features various electronic and alternative music legends. All of them set to reinterpret the record’s eight original tracks through a kaleidoscopic lens.
The tracklist involves works from EDM visionaries such as Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, and more. Alongside them is a cast of boundary-pushing artists, including Chino Moreno of Deftones and post-rock stalwarts Mogwai. Also, it will feature experimental rockers 65daysofstatic and others.
In a statement released with the announcement, Smith shared how the idea for the remix album came to be.
“Just after Christmas, I was sent a couple of unsolicited remixes of Songs of a Lost World tracks, and I really loved them,” he said. “The Cure has a colorful history with all kinds of dance music. And I was curious as to how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others.” That curiosity evolved into what Smith described as a “fabulous trip.” He went through the sonic terrain of “Songs of a Lost World.” The record marked the band’s first studio album in 16 years.
The Cure “Mixes of Last World” Details
“Mixes of a Lost World” will be available in a range of physical formats, including a deluxe three-LP, three-CD set. Plus, fans can have a three-cassette box set featuring both the original artist versions and the new remixes for purists and vinyl collectors. Also, there will be cassette editions with just the remixed tracks that will also be released.
Keeping up the band’s commitment to humanitarian causes, all recording royalties from the album will be donated to War Child UK.
The remix project follows the band’s previous forays into the world of reworks, including 1990’s Mixed Up and 2018’s Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018. It also arrives, Smith revealing in December that a live album, Songs of a Live World, is on the way. Also, two additional studio efforts are coming, one of which he described as a “companion piece” to the remix album. Another filled with what he called “really kind of random stuff… like late-night studio stuff.”
For fans of The Cure’s “Mixes of a Lost World,” promises a vivid reinterpretation of their latest chapter through the eyes of a new generation.
