Robert Smith of British band The Cure at the Glastonbury Festival
British rock band The Cure released “Alone” on Thursday, their first studio track in 16 years, ahead of a new album due out November 1.
This melancholic single, nearly seven minutes long, will open “Songs of a Lost World”, the 14th studio album of the emblematic group of the post-punk and cold wave wave that appeared at the end of the 1970s in England. The previous album, entitled “4:13 Dream”, was released in 2008.
The band led by Robert Smith already played “Alone” as the opening act for their successful “Shows of a Lost World” tour last year.
“This is the song that unlocked the album. As soon as we recorded this song, I knew it was the opening track, and I saw the whole album taking shape,” Robert Smith said in a statement.
After a long instrumental introduction of more than three minutes, the singer, composer and guitarist reels off dark lyrics about “the end of every song”, “the fire reduced to ashes” and “the stars erased by tears”.
The NME hailed the track as “epic and poignant”, while the Guardian called it “a song majestically surrounded by misery and despair”, giving it a score of 4 out of 5.
(Mayor-Louise Gumuchian, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French version, edited by Sophie Louet)
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