The Cure has revealed the track list for their upcoming 14th studio album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ and have also released their latest single, “A Fragile Thing.”
The band previously-announced that Songs Of A Lost World will drop on November 1. In a clip from an upcoming interview about new album (seen HERE), frontman Robert Smith talked about the inspiration behind it: “It’s the ‘love song’ of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that [1989’s] ‘Lovesong’ is a love song. It’s about love and how love is the most enduring of emotions, I think. It’s the most powerful emotion, and it’s incredibly resilient. And yet at the same time, incredibly fragile … I know, and doesn’t really make much sense. But I think you know what I mean. You feel sometimes you’re in danger of destroying something, and yet you kind of know that it can’t be destroyed.”
A Fragile Thing is the follow-up to the album’s lead single ‘Alone’ and Smith shared of that song: “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 Cure, initially formed in 1978, have sold over 30 million albums worldwide, and were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. The band recently announced two intimate pre-release shows in the UK slated to take place on Oct. 30 and 31.
Check out the lyric video for “Alone” – HERE and the lyric video for “A Fragile Thing.”
Songs Of A Lost World is available for pre-order now.
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