Perhaps this is why maturity suits the band so well. It has been 16 years (and two Kate Bush albums) since the last Cure LP and three decades since their last hit song. And yet Robert Smith & co. keep plodding on magnificently in a world of three-hour concerts, forever following their muse, free of the wearying obligations that face the next bright young things.
Now, at last, they return with Songs of a Lost World, an album clearly uninterested in making up time after its prolonged gestation, and content to move at its own unhurried pace.