The Cure Share First New Song in 16 Years, Announce Album Release Date
The lengthy wait is over: The Cure have discharged their untouched tune in over 16 years and showed the shed era for his or her nearest 14th book.
“Alone” will seem at the nearest LP Songs From a Misplaced Global, which is ready to be discharged Nov 1, 2024 by way of Polydor/Untruth. Pay attention to the monitor underneath.
The monitor gave the impression as the hole tune at the band’s Displays of a Misplaced Global world excursion all the way through 2022 and 2023. The book has been lengthy within the making, with its latest shed dates mooted for 2019. The book’s tracklist will likely be viewable within the coming weeks at the band’s social media channels.
Talking concerning the tune, frontman Robert Smith stated that “Alone” used to be “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.”
He added: “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. That was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”
Songs From a Misplaced Global used to be produced by means of Smith and Paul Corkett, who co-produced The Healing’s 2000 book Bloodflowers. The book options contributions from Smith, Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Reeves Gabriel (guitar) and Roger O’Donnell (keyboards). The terminating not too long ago introduced he’d been identified with uncommon and “aggressive” blood most cancers a age in the past, however added that “I’m fine and the prognosis is amazing”.
In fresh weeks the band had been teasing the shed of Songs From a Misplaced Global to fanatics by way of thriller postcards and puzzles. Smith has been revealing main points of the LP for a few years, and talking to the Los Angeles Times in 2019, he blamed himself for one of the crucial delays. “I keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say that’s it. It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum,” Smith added.
“I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me. It’s not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like Disintegration, I suppose. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound.”