The Cure have confirmed that Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years, will come out on November 1. The band will reveal the full tracklist on their new tracklist over the coming weeks, and today, they’ve shared a new song called ‘Alone’. Check it out below.
“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,” Robert Smith said of ‘Alone’ in a statement. “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.”
Live versions of two other new Cure songs, ‘And Nothing is Forever’ and ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’, came out on last month on limited edition eco-vinyl.
Songs of a Lost World Cover Artwork:
