The Cure presented “Alone”, the first single from their upcoming album “Songs Of A Lost World”

The Cure shared his epic and emotional new single “Alone”, in addition to confirming the release of his long-awaited new album “Songs Of A Lost World”.

The song is one of many tracks that the band has teased in their recent shows.

The leader Robert Smith He previously told the NME portal that their first album in 16 years would be “ruthless” and “express the darker side of what I have experienced in recent years”drawing more on the sounds of the classic ‘Pornography’ album as it “doesn’t have any of those songs that lighten the mood at all” due to having lost his mother, father and brother in recent years, the track is an extensive indie-noir mood piece that sees the frontman sing about feeling “cold and afraid”, adding: “The ghosts of everything we’ve been, we toast with bitter dregs to our emptinesses.”

When is The Cure’s new album coming out?

The band has also confirmed that their fourteenth album “Songs Of A Lost World” will be released on November 1. The full tracklist and further details will be revealed via their website and social media channels in the coming weeks.

The album was written and arranged by Smith, produced and mixed by Smith and Paul Corkett (who previously helmed the band’s ‘Bloodflowers’ album) and recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales. The album was performed by the formation of The Cure formed by Simon Gallup, Roger O’Donnell and Reeves Gabrels.

Smith created the cover concept with long-time Cure collaborator, Andy Vellain charge of the album’s art and design; the cover features “Bagatelle”, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

“Songs Of A Lost World” will be released as a single LP, a half-speed double master of Miles Showell’s Abbey Road, a marble single LP, a double cassette, a CD, a deluxe CD package with a Blu -ray with an instrumental version of the album and a Dolby Atmos mix of the album, and digital formats.