{"id":2839,"date":"2025-06-17T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/robert-smith-and-the-cure-get-wonderfully-lost-on-new-remix-album\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:07:35","slug":"robert-smith-and-the-cure-get-wonderfully-lost-on-new-remix-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/robert-smith-and-the-cure-get-wonderfully-lost-on-new-remix-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Smith and the Cure Get Wonderfully Lost on New Remix Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-1498292741.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Jason Cooper, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Roger O'Donnell of the Cure performs in 2023. (Credit: Scott Legato\/Getty Images)\"><\/figure>\n<p>Though the Cure is not remix-averse, they don\u2019t seem to give over every single song to others like some of their contemporaries do. Some fans consider <em>Mixed Up<\/em>\u2014their 1990 collection of remixes, rare tracks, and a new song (\u201cNever Enough\u201d)\u2014a proper entry in the band\u2019s discography. Twenty-eight years later, the band released <em>Torn Down <\/em>on Record Store Day. Featuring a remastered version of <em>Mixed Up,<\/em> the release also included <em>Mixed Up Extras 2018: Remixes, <\/em>versions of Cure favorites remixed by Smith himself.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few months after the November \u201824 release of <em>Songs of a Lost World, <\/em>the Cure\u2019s critically acclaimed first album since 2008\u2019s <em>4:13 Dream<\/em>, the band returns with <em>Mixes of a Lost World<\/em>, a deep and varied set that features two or three remixes of each <em>Lost World <\/em>track, depending on which version you purchase. The Cure also said all royalties will go to the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warchild.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">War Child<\/a>, immediately doing away with any criticism that this collection is a shameless cash grab.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/king-gizzard-phantom-island-tour\/\">King Gizzard &amp; The Lizard Wizard Hear A Symphony On New LP, Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/wilco-sky-blue-sky-festival\/\">Wilco Festival Returns To Mexico With MJ Lenderman, Dinosaur Jr.<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/sting-andy-summers-christian-mcbride\/\">Sting, Andy Summers Revisit The Police With Christian McBride<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each song on the record is remixed two or three times (depending on the version), sequenced in a way that makes each disc of nine tracks feel as singular a work as the original record. The tracks vary depending on the remixer, offering wild mood swings that use a basic original element to explore whole new sonic worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The album opens with Paul Oakenfold\u2019s \u201cCinematic\u201d mix of \u201cI Can Never Say Goodbye,\u201d Smith\u2019s elegy for his late brother. Oakenfold doubles down on the song\u2019s grandeur while pushing the sadness away, replacing it with something more visceral and intense. Meanwhile, the Craven Faults \u201cRework\u201d version strips the song back until it\u2019s little more than a funereal soundscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/mixes_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-466239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/mixes_cover.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/mixes_cover-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/mixes_cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/mixes_cover-498x498.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/figure>\n<p>Floating above many of these remixes are Smith\u2019s ghostly vocals, shorn back from the front and center of the original until they hover in ghostly suspension. For example, the Orbital remix of \u201cEndsong\u201d begins all swirling atmospherics and a chopped-up Smith vocal before ascending into a scintillating techno pulse. The song is again remixed by Gregor Tresher, who speeds up, and Mogwai, who makes it gauzy and loud.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to pin down distinct highlights on the record. The Ex-Easter Island Head take on \u201cAlone\u201d trembles with sadness while the Chino Moreno remix of \u201cWarsong\u201d takes the song\u2019s tormented tone and blasts it off into outer space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike prior Cure remix records, Smith hands the reins over to 24 talented musicians and producers to create something distinct from the original material on <em>Songs of a Lost World. <\/em>Smith\u2019s world has always been an insular one. It\u2019s nice to see him sharing it with others and seeing what they do with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Cure is not remix-averse, they don\u2019t seem to give over every single song to others like some of their contemporaries do. Some fans consider Mixed Up\u2014their 1990 collection&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,24,88,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-music","category-pushly","category-reviews","category-the-cure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}