After a few weeks of teasing, it’s official: The Cure‘s new album is titled Songs of a Lost World and will be out November 1 via Lost Music Limited / Universal. It’s their first in 16 years and 14th overall. The album was made at Rockfield Studios in Wales and produced by Robert Smith and Paul Corkett. The artwork was designed by Andy Vella based on a concept by Robert Smith and features ‘Bagatelle’, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
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The tracklist has yet to be revealed the album contains eight songs. The first single, “Alone,” is out now and sounds like classic Disintegration-era The Cure, in the best way. “It’s the track that unlocked the record,” Robert Smith says. “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.”
Watch the lyric video below.
