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And there’s a third in the works too

Robert Smith has confirmed that The Cure have finished work on a "companion piece" to their latest album 'Songs of a Lost World' and also have a separate album in prospect.

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

The Cure's royalties from sales of Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXlV will be donated to War Child

“Women presume we can have children. There is a biological and social expectation. Nothing can make that absence worse. But we have the possibility of making it better.” New to Netflix, Joy follows the British scientists who invented in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) – Bob Edwards (James Norton), Jean Purdy (Thomasin McKenzie)…

At Shrewsbury train station, there is a poster advertising The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World. The confident, monochrome minimalism of the art is at odds with the rambling Victorian brickwork, yet there is a kind of sympathy there also.

Plus that new Oasis album… it doesn’t exist. It was a joke all along!

Oasis leader Noel Gallagher might be a long-time fan of The Cure, but, not for the first time, his little brother Liam doesn't share his opinion

Robert Smith says getting first chart-topper since 1992’s Wish is ‘enormously uplifting’ and ‘genuinely heartwarming’

Material from new album Songs of a Lost World fits perfectly amid two hours’ worth of back-catalogue hits, all performed with giddy intensity