Rock icons, The Cure have released their highly-anticipated new single “Alone” off their new album SONGS OF A LOST WORLD, out on November 1st.
Speaking about “ALONE,” the opening track on SONGS OF A LOST WORLD, Robert Smith says:
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. 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 is their 14th studio release, it is their first in 16 years. Songs from the album were previewed during The Cure’s 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour, for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim.