The Cure release their first new music in 16 years; listen to “Alone”

British band The Cure released their first new song in 16 years on Thursday (26), the single “Alone”, and confirmed that their highly anticipated album will be released on November 1st.

The nearly seven-minute-long melancholic song is the first track on “Songs of a Lost World,” The Cure’s 14th studio album. Their last, “4:13 Dream”, was released in 2008. The band performed songs from the new album during the “Shows Of A Lost World” tour, opening the shows with “Alone”.

“It’s the track that unlocked the album; As soon as we recorded this song, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the entire album come into focus,” lead singer Robert Smith said in a statement.

“I had been struggling to find the right opening phrase for the right opening song for some time, working with the simple idea of ​​’being alone’, always with the nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening phrase should be. ”

Smith added that he was reminded of Ernest Dowson’s poem “Dregs” when he finished recording, “and it was at that moment that I knew the song — and the album — were real.”

The beginning of “Alone” has an instrumental that lasts more than three minutes before Smith begins to sing: “This is the end of all the songs we sang / The fire turned to ashes and the stars turned dark with tears.”

He goes on to sing about “birds falling from our skies,” “love falling from our lives,” and a “broken-voiced wail to call us home.”

British music publication NME called the song “epic and emotional”, while the Guardian newspaper described it as “majestically enveloped in suffering and despair”, giving it four out of five stars.

The Cure, who made their debut in the late 1970s and are known for their post-punk and darker melancholic tracks, had long been rehearsing to release a new album, with Smith revealing the record’s title “Songs of a Lost World” in 2022.

*With reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian of Reuters

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