The Cure has been hard at work crafting a new album. Today, the band dropped their single “Alone” and announced their forthcoming record Songs Of A Lost World due for release on November 1. You can pre-order your physical copy here.
This marks their first their 14th studio release and is also their first LP drop in 16 years. Previously, they released 4:13 Dream in 2008, which was followed up by various live albums.
Of the new track, iconic lead vocalist Robert Smith says, “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.”
Smith continues, “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.”
Currently, the band has not revealed their full trackist, though the Spotify tracklist preview reveals that the album is eight songs long.
Stay tuned for more updates on the forthcoming Cure record.
