We have less than three weeks to go until The Cure release their first album in 16 years.
The English rockers will release Songs Of A Lost World on Friday, 1 November, and they’ll celebrate the big day with an album launch show set to be livestreamed globally. The show will be the band’s first since December 2023.
“The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World: Album Launch Show Live at Troxy London – 1st November 2024,” the band wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) this morning (12 October). They added that the show will be livestreamed globally on The Cure’s YouTube channel – more details on that will follow.
The Cure are expecting “very high demand” for the album launch show, so tickets won’t be guaranteed even if fans pre-order the album and gain access to the ticket sale. If you want to know more about scoring tickets (the band have laid out information for fans across the globe), head here.
Songs Of A Lost World has been preceded by singles Alone and A Fragile Thing.
On Alone, frontman Robert Smith said, “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.”
You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.
Earlier this month, The Cure released the singles, And Nothing Is Forever, and I Can Never Say Goodbye on eco-vinyl.
The songs were shared as part of a release called Novembre: Live In France 2022. And Nothing Is Forever was recorded at Sud de France Arena, Montpellier, on Tuesday, 8 November 2022. I Can Never Say Goodbye was recorded five days later at the Zénith Toulouse Métropole.
