Well, well, well, look who decided to come stumbling on home after 16 years gone. We were worried sick! Alas, we have found a cure—The Cure! The iconic band is back with “Alone,” the first single from their much-speculated-about new album, Songs of a Lost World. The album’s first track finds the band toying with wall-of-sound guitars and lush synths. Bandleader Robert Smith eventually joins the fun, getting all meta on us when he sings: “This is the end of every song that we sing / The fire burned out to ash and the stars grown dim with tears.”
“It's the track that unlocked the record,” Smith shared, “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…and that was the moment when I knew the song—and the album—were real.”
The new LP will arrive on November 1 via Fiction and Capitol Records. Check out “Alone” below, and pre-order Songs of a Lost World here.
