The Cure new album

The Cure will release their long-awaited new album, Songs Of A Lost World, on 1 November.

The album, their 14th studio release, is their first in 16 years. Songs from the LP were previewed during The Cure’s 90-date Shows Of A Lost World tour, for more than 1.3 million people.

Alone, the first song released from the album, opened every show on the tour and is available to stream now. The band will reveal the rest of the tracklisting for the record over the coming weeks here.

Listen below:

Songs Of A Lost World

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 was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett. The Cure, featuring Robert Smith (voice / guitar / 6-string bass / keyboard), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums / percussion), Roger O’Donnell (keyboard), and Reeves Gabrels (guitar), recorded the album 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.

Songs Of A Lost World will be released as a 1LP, a Miles Showell Abbey Road half-speed master 2LP, and marble-coloured 1LP. It will also be available as a 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.

Available for pre-order now here

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