The Cure confirm new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ and share lead single ‘Alone’
It's finally happening...
By Nick Reilly
The Cure have released ‘Alone’, the first song from their anticipated new album Songs Of A Lost World.
The Crawley goth-rock icons have also confirmed that the album will drop on November 1, marking their first record in 16 years.
Describing ‘Alone’, which sees the group on typically gloomy form, Robert Smith said: “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus.
“I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working with the simple idea of ‘being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be… as soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs’ by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”
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.
Songs from the record have also been teased at the band’s live shows in recent years, but the album marks the first time they will have been released.