Robert Smith looking up as fog backlights his head
Robert Smith, Featured image credit: Mariano Regidor

The Cure “Alone” review: An evolved approach

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After almost two decades without new music, The Cure have made history with their latest single, Alone.

Planned to be the opening song of their upcoming album Songs Of A Lost World, Alone is full of the bands usual hallmarks, but it also has a very distinct sound that separates it from any of the their prior work.

Alone is ethereal and beautiful, it’s a seven minute triumph that begs to be listened to on repeat.

In a video on Instagram, vocalist Robert Smith discussed his approach to creating Songs Of A Lost World, stating that he didn’t “Think there was a kind of official beginning to the album. It’s been kind of been drifting in and out of my life for an awful long time.”

Alone begins with a three minute build up. No vocals are present, but an atmosphere is slowly created that draws the listener in. An echoed drum beat reverberates through the shoegazey guitars, whilst a piano plays a gentle melody accompanied by said guitars.

Each instrument builds on top of one another, adding more and more to the dream like soundscape Alone captures. After three minutes, Robert Smith begins to sing, opening with the line, “This is the end of every song that we sing.” A line that’s bound to be tattooed over and over again in the coming months.

If you were on the fence about The Cure coming back, I can assure you, they remain just as amazing as they were forty years ago.

Alone can be streamed here.

Songs Of A Lost World releases November 1.

Featured image credit: Mariano Regidor

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