The Cure announce ‘Alone’, the first song from their long awaited new album
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By Nick Reilly
The Cure have announced the release of ‘Alone’, the first song from their anticipated new album Songs Of A Lost World.
The Crawley goth icons will release the song on September 26 as they gear up to release their first album in 16 years.
The group have confirmed that the song will debut on Mary Anne Hobbs’s BBC Radio 6Music show on 26th September between 10.30am and 1pm, before further details about the album are revealed that day.
A brief snippet of the song shared on social media shows it to be a typically brooding effort from the group, as Robert Smith sings: “This is the end of every song that we sing.“
The band’s last album came in 2008’s 4:13 Dream, but they have been teasing the follow up with increasing intensity in recent weeks.
One inspired spot of guerilla marketing saw a poster promoting the forthcoming LP placed outside a lone pub in Crawley, Smith’s hometown.
After wiping clean the band’s official website earlier this month, U.K. fans also received a postcard in the mail with the embossed words “Songs of a Lost World” and a group of Roman numerals that, when converted to European date/month format, translate to November 1, 2024.
Smith has been at work on the new album for at least the past half-decade, providing Rolling Stone with a progress report back in 2019.
“The other thing is we only did my demos, and the band has some songs they gave me to listen to, to turn into songs that I didn’t get around to. So I feel like we should probably explore them for a few days, as well, in the studio now that we’re playing again together just to see if something emerges,” Smith said.
“I do want it to work in a way those really good Cure albums — my favorite Cure albums — work as pieces. I want people to listen to it from beginning to end and be taken somewhere through that period.”