The iconic rock group returns with a new single taken from their upcoming album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.
After a 16-year hiatus, British rock group The Cure have finally returned. Their comeback single ‘Alone’ marks the release of their upcoming album, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.
The scene has changed since their last foray into the world of music, but that hasn’t let fans temper expectations.
Long time listeners will be satisfied with their latest offering, as they retain their original sound. This time around, the band slightly tweak it for a new generation, compromising only through growth to land a song with meaning.
Themes of grief
The band’s latest song expresses themes of loss and grief performed under an ambience of ruin. It is inspired by Ernest Dowson’s poem ‘Dregs’, and even borrows a line directly from it: “This is the end of every song that we sing”.
During the making of the album, front man Robert Smith lost both his parents and brother, inspiring the song’s creation.
Smith told NME that he intends to “express the darker side of what I’ve experienced over the last few years” – drawing more on the sounds of classic album ‘Pornography’ as “it hasn’t got any of those songs that lighten the mood at all”
The challenge will be to introduce their music to a new set of listeners, as their name is all but familiar but foreign to contemporary audiences.
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