The Cure Releases New Single “Alone”

The Cure shared a new single on Thursday, giving fans a preview of a new album!

The band released the song “Alone,” an emotional track reflecting on the idea of time alone.

“It’s 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,” frontman Robert Smith said of the song in a statement. “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.”

The song will be on The Cure’s new album “Songs of a Lost World,” out November 1.