“‘A Fragile Thing’ is driven by the difficulties we face in choosing between mutually exclusive needs and how we deal with the futile regret that can follow these choices” The Cure have shared a new song, ‘A Fragile Thing’, and announced the tracklist for their upcoming album ‘ Songs Of A Lost World ’. Read More: The Big Read – EXCLUSIVE – The Cure: “Glastonbury won’t be the only time I’ll burst into tears on stage this summer” The goth legends shared a snippet of the track on Monday (October 7) and announced that the single would be arriving this week , after teasing it via their WhatsApp fan channel and mailing list the previous day . ‘A Fragile Thing’ is a lush, haunting track that comes in at just over four minutes, starting with ghostly piano before the bass and drums kick in – with Robert Smith’s vocals at the forefront of it all.
The song may have been influenced by Smith losing his mother, father and brother, something which he said in 2019 was the source of some of the upcoming album’s “darkness” . The single comes after the band released ‘Alone’, the album’s lead single, which became their first new material since their 2008 album ‘4:13 Dream’, in September . “‘A Fragile Thing’ is driven by the difficulties we face in choosing between mutually exclusive needs and how we deal with the futile regret that can follow these choices,” said Smith, “however sure we are that the right choices have been made.
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