Hear the Cure's First New Song in 16 Years, "Alone"
"It's the track that unlocked the record," Robert Smith said
"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."
Fans won't be one bit disappointed by "Alone," which feels like a quintessential Cure song. In their cinematic mode, Smith and co. gracefully wallow in the way only they can with long, drawn-out instrumental breaks and the frontman's unmistakably sterling voice cushioned by downy atmospherics.
No further details about Songs of a Lost World have been shared yet, but it's now available for pre-order — and if the band's hints are to be believed, it should arrive in full on November 1. Revel in the grandeur of "Alone" below.