The Cure's Remixes Of A Lost World album is inevitably a mixed bag. It's out in multiple formats, twenty four remixes spread across triple CD, double and triple vinyl. I've already written about the Four Tet remix of Alone and the Orbital remix of Endsong, both of which are so good they make me wonder why Robert Smith hasn't done a full remix album or album with either the Hartnoll brothers and/ or Kieran Hebden. There's a Daniel Avery remix of Drone:Nodrone that hits all the goth- slo mo techno spots and a pumping Danny Briotet and Rico Conning remix that could close every indie/ goth disco night from now until the end of time.
Mogwai, no strangers to expansive, dark emotional soundscapes bring themselves to Endsong, a stuttering noisy affair with a guitar line picked out on top, the band crawling slowly through a ten minute Cure shaped valley of despair, Smith's voice eventually drifting in, singing of being alone, left alone with nothing at the end of every song.
Colleen Cosmo Murphy takes a different approach, shifting the flow of the album (as sequenced on my double vinyl version) and has more in common with some of the dance/ Balearic remixes that The Cure last flirted with on Mixed Up back in 1990. Colleen's Electric Eden remix of And Nothing Is Forever adds a throbbing, sequenced dancefloor bassline, some twinkling synths and a ghostly choir, Robert's voice clear and loud on top- its a sunlit version of The Cure, very much a joyful and upward facing remix.
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