The Cure have shared new track “Alone,” and with it, affirmation that their first album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World, will arrive on November 1. Robert Smith produced the long-teased album with Paul Corkett at Rockfield Studios in Wales. The band will reveal the tracklist on their new website and their social channels within the coming weeks. Hearken to “Alone” beneath, and scroll right down to see the album paintings.
“Alone,” says Robert Smith in a press launch, is “the observe that unlocked the file; as quickly as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening track, and I felt the entire album come into focus. I had been struggling to seek out the best opening line for the best opening track for some time, working with the straightforward thought of ‘being alone’, at all times at the back of my thoughts this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line ought to be… as quickly as we completed recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs’ by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the second once I knew the track—and the album—had been actual.”
On the trail to turning into “actual,” the follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream has been by way of a cycle of ifs and maybes, beginning in 2019, when Smith stated the Remedy had been into the studio and recorded 19 epic songs that might fill a pair of albums. “We’ll end [an album] earlier than we begin [touring] in the summertime, and it’ll be blended by way of the summer season,” he instructed Rolling Stone that March. He quickly confessed to being slightly off schedule however insisted he could be “extraordinarily bitter” if the 2019 launch date fell by way of.
In early 2020, he refused to repeat the error, letting the album reside in purgatory till 2022, when the band teased the Songs of a Misplaced World title and launched some new songs to setlists. Two of them, “And Nothing Is Endlessly” and “I Can By no means Say Goodbye,” are set for a live single this November.
Learn Sam Sodomsky’s Sunday Evaluation of the Remedy’s Wish.
