NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Goths, rejoice: Finally, The Cure has released new music.
“Alone”, their first new song in 16 years, premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music radio show on Thursday morning.
The English band also announced a new album, ‘Songs of A Lost World’, to be released on November 1st.
The Cure teased new music on social media ahead of its release, sharing a snippet of the song that featured their trademark guitars, metallic percussion and sparkling synths. Near the end, singer Robert Smith jumped in with the somber lyrics, “This is the end of every song that we sing.”
“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 like the whole album came into focus,” Smith said in a press release. “I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working on it the simple idea of ’being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line would be… as soon as we stopped recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs’ ‘ by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the moment I knew the song – and the album – were real.”
The Cure have toured in the years since their last album, 2008’s “4:13 Dream,” but have yet to release a new album. In 2019, Smith told Rolling Stone the band had recorded 19 tracks, ranging from 10-12 minutes long, and wanted to release a new album on Halloween that year. It didn’t happen.
But now The Cure joins a long list of 2024 band reunions, which so far includes everyone from Britpop icons Oasiswhich ended a 15-year hiatus and, presumably, the long-standing feud between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, to Linkin Park — now with a new singer, Dead Sara’s Emily Armstrong — their first appearances since the death in 2017 by singer Chester Bennington.