The Cure Drop Live Version, Remix of ‘A Fragile Thing’

The Cure dropped a new EP Friday featuring new versions of their latest single, “A Fragile Thing.” Along with a remix, the EP features a live recording of the song from their gig at the London club the Troxy earlier this month, which was livestreamed on YouTube.

“Thank you again to everyone helping make the Troxy London night special — in the room and around the world,” the band said in a statement. The early November concert celebrated the release of the band’s latest album, Songs of a Lost World, which the Cure played in its entirety. The three-hour show also marked the 45th anniversary of the band’s second album, Seventeen Seconds.

The Cure’s A Fragile Thing EP also features a new, moodier remix of the song, done by Robert Smith himself.

Songs of a Lost World is the Cure’s first album in six years. “The words ‘long awaited’ don’t begin to do justice to the new Cure album. Songs of a Lost World is an album that’s been promised, rumored, dangled, teased, longed for, despaired of, imagined,” Rob Sheffield wrote in his review of the album. “Songs of a Lost World is the triumphant power-doom epic it needed to be, fully the Cure’s best since Disintegration, as Smith reaches into the depths of his cobwebbed heart, going deep into adult loss and grief.”

Smith has teased a 2025 world tour for the band, though they have yet to announce dates.