The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World, arrives 16 years after their last one, the tepidly-received 4:13 Dream. This gap between albums has meant that—for several generations of music fans coming of age online—the band that Robert Smith started in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 when he was 17 has been close to a non-concern. In that interim period, The Cure has perhaps appeared on