The Cure release new song, “Alone”

Earlier this week, The Cure announced they were planning the release of the first single from Songs of a Lost World, their first new album in 16 years. And now that song has arrived. The Cure premiered “Alone” via the BBC this morning, and now you can hear it below.

Robert Smith said of the new song in a statement, “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. 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.”

The band have also shared details about their long-awaited new album. Songs of a Lost World will arrive on November 1 via Fiction/Capitol.

The Cure’s last album was 2008’s 4:13 Dream. Their 1992 album Wish is included on our list of the 150 Best Albums of the 1990s. Also, read our essay on their 1989 masterpiece Disintegration, which placed at number two on our Treble 100 list.