The project is the band’s first in 16 years
The Cure will release their long-awaited new album, Songs of a Lost World, on November 1st via UMG. The album, their 14th studio release, is their first in 16 years. Songs from the album were previewed during The Cure’s 90-date, 33-country Shows Of A Lost World Tour, for more than 1.3 million people.
The project will be released as a single LP, a Miles Showell Abbey Road half-speed master 2 LP, a marble-colored single LP, double cassette, CD, a Deluxe Edition in 6-panel digi-sleeve with the album and instrumentals on two CDs, plus a Blu-ray with Hi-Res stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes.
“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 track listing for the new album over the coming weeks.
“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,” frontman Robert Smith says. “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.”
Initially formed in 1978, The Cure has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, headlined the Glastonbury festival four times and been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. They are considered to be one of the most influential bands to ever come out of the UK.
Songs of a Lost World was written and arranged by Robert Smith, and produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett. It was recorded 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.
