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26 September 2024

Goth icons THE CURE teased the pending arrival of their 14th LP, their first in 16 years, for some weeks. Now we have all main info. The LP’s title is Songs Of A Lost World and it will drop on planet Earth on November 1. Pre-order info here.

New album artwork

And today the first single, named ALONE has arrived.

Smith: “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.”

ALONE is an almost 7-minute funeral march, a slowly progressing lament, layered with mourning synths. Smith only starts singing halfway and augments the sombre atmosphere all the way through. After a couple of spins the songs keeps on coming back to haunt you.

This is the end of every song that we sing
The fire burned out to ash and
The stars grown dim with tears
Cold and afraid
The ghosts of all that we’ve been
We toast, with bitter dregs, to our emptiness

All Cure fans already know the song for a long time
as the band played it live a couple of times last year, like here
in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

THE CURE: Instagram