The Cure have teased another new track from their forthcoming album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘.
Folowing the release of their comeback single ‘Alone’ last week, the band are now teasing the track ‘Endsong’ from their new record. You can listen to a snippet of the song below.
The band have previously performed the track during their live shows, with NME describing it as a “stunning, sprawling soundscape to portray Smith utterly lost in a universe where there’s ‘Nothing left of all I loved,’” in a review of their show at the OVO Arena Wembley in 2022.
Frontman Robert Smith previously told NME that their first album in 16 years would be “merciless” and would “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” due to having lost his mother, father and brother in recent years.
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Following the release of the track ‘Alone’, the band also confirmed that their 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ will be released on November 1 and is available to pre-order now here.
Speaking about the wait for their new LP in a recent clip shared to the band’s official Instagram account, Smith shared: “I don’t think there was really a kind of an official beginning to this album because it’s been kind of drifting in and out of my life for like an awful long time. I mean if I have one regret is that I said anything at all about it in 2019 because I really shouldn’t have done that.”
He continued: “We had only just started creating it. I don’t know, there are various points where I thought ‘I think we are going to make a new album’ and then it’s kind of the idea, sort of like for various reasons, other things have happened and the idea’s been sort of pushed back. So I’m not sure but there have been definite points along the way where I thought ‘Ah, you know, this, you know, whether it be the first song.
“The key, I think, in the history of the band is if I know what the opening song is and I know what the closing song is, I think that’s the album halfway done, you know. That’s the key for an album.”
Speaking to NME about ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ back in 2019 and its progress, Smith said: “We did about 17 songs and almost all of them were really downbeat and heavy. There were a handful of others, and I really shouldn’t say this because you’ll go ‘oh no’, but in my head I wanted to do two albums – one after another. One was gonna be upbeat and the other downbeat, but the upbeat one I’m not so sure about now.”
He continued: “Although the concept of what it’s going to be hasn’t really changed, I may have to change some bits of it. It’s kind of pushed me back a little bit because I thought I’d be in the mixing stage by the time we’d finished the festivals, but in fact we’re going to go back and re-record about three or four songs around the time we go and play Glasgow in August. I feel intent on it being a 2019 release and would be extremely bitter if it isn’t. At some point I will have to say ‘this is it’, otherwise we’ll just keep recording like we have done in the past. It never gets any better. We’re due one more session then we’re done.”
Smith gave a further update at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, exclusively confirming that The Cure’s next album would be titled ‘Songs Of A Lost World’. He shared at the time: “It’s got artwork, it’s got a running order, it’s almost done! They’re so slow because of vinyl, but it might come in September. I’d rather it just came out. I can’t stand the anticipation.”
He also revealed more about its sister record and his anticipated solo album. “So I’ve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,” he added. “Unfortunately, it’s the second one that’s finished. [On the other] I’ve got to do four vocals, and there are 10 songs on each album. We’re mixing next month on April 1, so I’ve got three weeks left.”
Asked about the sound of the upcoming records, Smith revealed: “Well the first Cure album is relentless doom and gloom. It’s the doomiest thing that we’ve ever done. The second one is upbeat, and my [solo] one won’t be out until next year.”
