Reaffirming the age-old adage that good things come to those who wait, The Cure have unveiled “Alone” as the lead single from their forthcoming album Songs Of A Lost World. Due in stores November 1st courtesy of Fiction/Capitol Records and now available for pre-order in various physical formats, the band’s fourteenth studio LP is their first new album in sixteen years, dating back to 2008’s 4:13 Dream.
“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,” Robert Smith says of the nearly seven-minutes-long, ambient guitar-driven track “Alone” in an official statement. “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 official lyric video for “Alone” below and mark November 1st on your calendar for the release of the group’s long-awaited new album.
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