have shared new song “ ,” and with it, confirmation that their first album in 16 years, , will arrive on November 1. produced the album with Paul Corkett at Rockfield Studios in Wales. The band will reveal the tracklist on their and their social channels in the coming weeks.
Listen to “Alone” below, and scroll down to see the album artwork. “Alone,” says Robert Smith in a press release, is “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.
” On the path to becoming “real,” the follow-up to 2008’s has been through a cycle of ifs and maybes, starting in 2019, when Smith said the Cure had been into the studio and recorded 19 epic songs that would fill a pair of albums. “We’ll finish [an album] before we start [touring] in the summer, and it’ll be mixed through the summer,” he told that March. He soon confessed to being a little off schedule but insisted he would be “extremely bitter” if the 2019 release date fell through.
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