The Cure: I Can Never Say Goodbye (Mental Overdrive Remix / Visualiser) [Polydor] 2025

Mixes of a Lost World is the third remix album by English rock band the Cure, released on 13 June 2025 by Fiction, and Polydor.^[1][2] The album features 24 remixes of songs from the band’s 2024 album Songs of a Lost World.^[3]

Background

The origins of Mixes of a Lost World come from a collection of unsolicited remixes of Songs of a Lost World tracks sent to Robert Smith who fancied them and was curious of how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others.^[4] In December, Smith confirmed the “companion release” was to be released,^[5] adding that there was yet a “third one which is completely different. It’s really kind of random stuff, it’s like late-night studio stuff.”^[6]

On 21 April 2025, the band announced a remix album, featuring reworks by artists including Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, and Orbital.^[1][2] It is the third collection of remixes of the Cure songs, after Mixed Up (1990), and Torn Down (2018).^[6]

The band announced that all of its recording royalties of Mixes of a Lost World will benefit the charity War Child UK, that supports children living with the effects of war and conflict,^[1] similarly to the case of the live album Songs of a Live World Troxy London MMXXlV, recorded at The Cure’s album launch show at the Troxy in East London.^[7]

When inviting the Danish electronic musician Trentemøller to the project, Smith wrote him a direct email, asking “if [he]’d be up for remixing a track from the Cure album.” He could choose whichever song.^[8] Around the time of announcement of the project, the English electronic musician and DJ Four Tet has been closing his recent shows with his own remix of “Alone”.^[9]

Release

The two-disc edition feature all eight tracks from the album in remixed form. A three-disc deluxe set includes additional eight remixes and reworks of each tracks from the original album, by artists including Chino Moreno of Deftones, Mogwai, and 65daysofstatic. Therefore, the three-disc version of Mixes of a Lost World features three versions of each original song in a remixed form.^[10]

All editions of the remix album feature alternative artwork by the band’s longtime collaborator Andy Vella.^[7]

On 21 June 2025, an additional remix of “A Fragile Thing” by record producer Mark Saunders, was digitally released post-album, namely “A Fragile Thing (Mark Saunders Heartbroken Remix)”.

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