Written by: Alex Green

The Cure have released “Alone,” which is the first single from their long-awaited new album Songs From A Lost World.

“Alone” is a stark and deliciously bleak six-minute meditation on loss and it features singer Robert Smith’s inimitable and ageless voice paying homage to “…All the love that’s fallen out of our lives.”

In a statement Smith says “Alone” “…is 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.”

Their 14th studio album overall, The Cure’s Songs From A Lost World will be out Nov 1.