After 16 years, The Cure have finally announced the long-awaited and promised album that they’ve been delaying for many years. Alongside the news of the new album, they’ve shared a new single, “Alone.” It’s been described a “gloomy seven-minute epic.”
Presave Songs of a Lost World here.
During their huge run of shows last year, they used this song as the show opener. Beyond that, it’s the opening track on the long-awaited album, Songs of a Lost World. This album is going to be their 14th studio album due November 1 via Capitol Records. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and was produced and mixed by Smith and Paul Corkett.
Smith on “Alone”:
“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. As soon as we finished recording, I remembered the poem “Dregs” by the English poet, Ernest Dowson. That was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”
