As a final touch, Vella created a custom typeface—a serif design with light smudging—to spell out the album title and the band’s name, effectively producing a new logo for the Cure.

“The new album is The Cure at their classic best,” Andy Vella ... The designer then worked with his Arts University Bournemouth colleague Ben Parker to bring the sculpture to life in motion across the ...

Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The LP’s cover art features “Bagatelle,” a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

Goths, rejoice: At long last, The Cure have released new music. “Alone”, their first new song in 16 years, premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music radio show Thursday morning (26 September.

While still studying at art school, Vella was approached by on-off Cure guitarist Porl Thompson who wanted him to photograph another group he was playing in. "He said, 'You've got a reputation at ...

Famously, The Cure are that rarest of rock beast ... for the ambient gloom of “All Cats Are Grey” or the spacious art-mospheres of “Underneath the Stars”. Here, forswearing all singles ...

It’s the most critically acclaimed Cure album by such an insurmountable ... by Blink-182 (a year removed from proving their newfound art-rock ambitions with a Robert Smith cameo on “All ...

The Cure’s latest full-length is a serious work of art meant to be digested as a whole, but here’s Billboard’s preliminary ranking of every track on Songs of a Lost World. “And Nothing is ...