The Cure have shared new track ‘Alone’, confirming their first album in 16 years. Songs of the lost worldarriving November 1. Long-time producer of the album with Paul Corkett, the band will be releasing it on their new website and social channels in the coming weeks. Listen to “Alone” below and scroll down to see the album art for
“Alone,” says Robert Smith in a press release, “is the track that opened the record; as soon as we recorded that piece of music, I knew it was the opening song and I felt like the whole album was in focus. I was struggling for a while to find the right opening line, working on “being alone”. with the idea, I always had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I already knew what the opening line was supposed to be… as soon as we finished recording, I remembered “Dregs” by the English poet Ernest Dawson. the poem… and that’s when I knew the song and the album were real.”
On the way to becoming “real”, 2008 4:13 Dream he’s been through a period of ifs and maybes since 2019, when Smith said the Cure entered the studio and recorded 19 epic songs that would fill a pair of albums [an album] before we begin [touring] in the summer, and the summer will mix,” he said Rolling Stone that battle. He soon admitted he was a little behind schedule, but insisted he would be “extremely bitter” if the 2019 release date fell through.
In early 2020, he refused to repeat the mistake, letting the album live in purgatory until 2022, when the band teased Songs of the lost world title and introduced several new songs to the setlists, two of which, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” are slated for a live single this November.
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