The Cure will return this week with a brand new track—their first in 16 years, and the primary positive signal of a studio comeback from a band that has been teasing an imminent return since a minimum of 2019. “Alone,” the lead single of an album referred to as Songs of a Misplaced World, will arrive Thursday at 7 a.m. Japanese after premiering on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music radio present. Take heed to a snippet on the band’s social media, and scroll all the way down to see the duvet artwork.
Since their final album, 2008’s 4:13 Dream, the Treatment have persistently toured, attended awards reveals, and spoken to the press, usually alluding to new music. The false alarms started in earnest in 2014, once they mentioned a sequel to 4:13 Dream, titled 4:14 Scream, could be launched and packaged with its predecessor. After making the announcement, Robert Smith played the record down, then played it up again, and ultimately determined it will by no means be launched. Ultimately, the band’s promised return to the studio did materialize in 2014, albeit within the type of a cover of the Beatles’ “Hiya, Goodbye” for a Paul McCartney tribute LP.
In 2019, Smith declared that the Treatment had been into the studio and recorded 19 songs that had been 10 to 12 minutes lengthy, later mentioned to comprise two albums. “We’ll end [an album] earlier than we begin [touring] in the summertime, and it’ll be combined by way of the summer time,” he informed Rolling Stone that March. A number of months later, he conceded that a couple of re-records had been so as, however insisted he could be “extraordinarily bitter” if a 2019 launch date didn’t materialize.
By the next February, requested to verify an album would come that yr, he replied, “No! I’m too previous to decide to fool issues like that.” Two years handed—largely pandemic time. Smith ultimately teased the Songs of a Misplaced World title in 2022 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 launch on a live single this November.
The most recent album rumors had the ring of fact: Within the fashionable custom of main rollouts, the band despatched followers mysterious postcards, up to date its social media logos, and put up an album launch flyer in a pub in its Crawley hometown. A mysterious web site—www.songsofalost.world—launched this month, unlocked by the date November 1, 2024, in Roman numerals. Beforehand empty apart from a sculptural head, the positioning now hosts the identical preview of the observe because the band’s socials.
