The song is at #25 on the Hot 100 and rising, and it’s #1 in her native UK. Now, the South London singer covered the Cure’s “Close To Me” for triple j’s Like A Version series.

“Close To Me” is the latter ... Apparently, of all 18 songs The Cure wrote for Kiss Me… this one was the most intuitive of the bunch. It isn’t a mystery why “High” was selected ...

The Cure celebrated the arrival of their long-awaited and much-acclaimed new album Songs of a Lost World ... “Friday I’m in Love,” “Close to Me,” and a show-ending “Boys Don’t ...

Goth Icon Shares New ‘Dramatic’ Version of Hit Song originally appeared on Parade. Few are more synonymous with goth —be it ...

Famously, The Cure are that rarest of rock beast ... bleakness of the band’s formative “goth era”. Alongside “Close to Me” ...

31-song set. The set comprised the entirety of the new album and fan favorites, and the band closed the encore with hits like “Friday I’m in Love,” “Close to Me,” and “Boys Don’t Cry.” ...

Splendidly stark, Songs of a Lost World has everything ... Nor is there any trace of the playful, smeared-lipstick Cure of pop hits such as “Close to Me” and “In Between Days”.

Young recorded the cover of the song, taken from The Cure’s 1985 album ‘The Head on the Door’, for triple j’s Like A Version series. “It’s just a great ...