After years of anticipation, The Cure will finally release their 14th studio album Songs Of A Lost World on November 1st. The record is their first in 16 years. While fans have been patient, they can thankfully listen to the first song off the album, “ALONE,” right now.
The single will be the album’s opener. As Robert Smith puts it, “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 was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett, and performed by The Cure. The Cure is Robert Smith: Voice/guitar/six-string bass/keyboard, Simon Gallup: Bass, Jason Cooper: Drums/percussion, Roger O’Donnell: Keyboard, and Reeves Gabrels: Guitar. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales.
Robert Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle’, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat. The album will be released as a 1LP, a Miles Showell Abbey Road half-speed master 2LP, marble-coloured 1LP, double Cassette, CD, a deluxe CD package with a Blu-ray featuring an instrumental version of the record and a Dolby Atmos mix of the album, and in digital formats.
Songs from the album were previewed during The Cure’s 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour, with more than 1.3 million people attending.
