At long last, The Cure have announced their new album, Songs of a Lost World, which is set for release on Friday, November 1st through Fiction/Capitol Records. As a preview, the band has revealed the first single, “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,” says frontman Robert Smith of “Alone.” “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.”
Songs of a Lost World marks The Cure’s first album since 4:13 Dream in 2008. The album was written and arranged by Smith, produced and mixed by Smith and Paul Corkett, and recorded by the lineup of Smith, bassist Simon Gallup, drummer Jason Cooper, keyboardist, keyboardist Roger O’Donnell, and guitarist Reeves Gabrels at Rockfield Studios in Wales.
Songs of a Lost World will be released in a variety of formats, including digitally and on vinyl, CD, cassette. It will also be available in a deluxe CD package that includes a Blu-ray disc featuring an instrumental version of the album and a Dolby Atmos mix. Pre-orders are now ongoing.