Robert Smith of The Cure does at Riot Fest 2023 at Douglass Park onSept 17, 2023 in Chicago. Jason Squires/ FilmMagic
The long haul mores than: The Cure have actually launched their brand-new tune in over 16 years and verified the launch day for their upcoming 14th cd.
“Alone” will certainly show up on the upcoming LP Songs From a Lost World, which is readied to be launched Nov 1, 2024 using Polydor/Fiction Listen to the track listed below.
The track looked like the opening tune on the band’s Shows of a Lost World international scenic tour throughout 2022 and 2023. The cd has actually been long planned, with its initial launch days mooted for 2019. The cd’s tracklist will certainly be disclosed in the coming weeks on the band’s social networks networks.
Speaking regarding the tune, frontman Robert Smith stated that “Alone” was “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.”
He included: “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. That was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”
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Songs From a Lost World was generated by Smith and Paul Corkett, that co-produced The Cure’s 2000 cdBloodflowers The cd includes payments from Smith, Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Reeves Gabriel (guitar) and Roger O’Donnell (key-boards). The last lately revealed he would certainly been identified with unusual and “aggressive” blood cancer cells a year earlier, however included that“I’m fine and the prognosis is amazing”
In current weeks the band had actually been teasing the launch of Songs From a Lost World to followers using enigma postcards and challenges. Smith has actually been disclosing information of the LP for several years, and talking with the Los Angeles Times in 2019, he condemned himself for several of the hold-ups. “I keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say that’s it. It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum,” Smith included.
“I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me. It’s not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like Disintegration, I suppose. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound.”
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