The Cure Announce New Live Album, ‘Songs of a Live World’

After a 16 yr await a brand new album, The Treatment are getting slightly prolific.

The veteran publish punk outfit have at the moment (Dec. 1) introduced the discharge of a brand new reside album, recorded throughout their latest London efficiency.

Fittingly-titled Songs of a Stay World: Troxy London MMXXIV and recorded on the titular venue on Nov. 1, the album captures “a really particular night time” which served because the launch of their first album in 16 years, Songs of a Misplaced World.

The present itself was livestreamed to YouTube, with the band performing your entire eight-song album in full on the day of its launch. Moreover, the set additionally featured 23 extra songs from their illustrious profession, together with a five-song suite of tracks from their second document, 1980’s Seventeen Seconds.

Whereas the complete present will stay out there to stream on YouTube, the Robert Smith-mixed audio can be releleased on vinyl, CD, and cassette in early 2025. Pre-orders for the document have been made out there now, with all earnings to be donated to U.Okay. charity Battle Youngster.

The discharge of The Treatment‘s Songs of a Misplaced World has been a massively profitable one for the veteran group. Along with giving the band their first U.Okay. No. 1 since 1992’s Want, the document additionally made a return to the highest of U.S. charts as effectively.

It grew to become the band’s first No. 1 on the 33-year-old High Album Gross sales chart and the act’s highest-charting effort on the Billboard 200 (No. 4) since 1992. It additionally bows at No. 1 on High Rock & Various Albums, High Rock Albums, High Various Albums, Vinyl Albums and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales.

The album’s first-week gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout 5 vinyl variants (which bought a mixed 23,000 copies; the band’s finest week on vinyl since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991), a typical CD, a CD/blu-ray audio package deal, two cassettes, a typical digital obtain and a deluxe digital obtain with 5 bonus reside tracks (unique to the band’s webstore).