The Cure’s new single “Alone” is the band’s first since 2008. It preceded their latest album Songs of a Lost World, which arrived o 1. Frontman Robert Smith said in a statement, “It’s the track that ...

The record is a gorgeous, cathartic return to what the band does best, and especially satisfying after the Cure’s last two ...

Musically, it’s textbook Cure, alternately mesmerizing with minor key piano (“A Fragile Thing ... (“Cold and afraid/the ghosts of all that we’ve been/we toast with bitter dregs/to our emptiness,” he ...

“This is the end of every song that we sing,” croons Robert Smith — the Cure’s mascara-eyed frontman — at the beginning of “Alone,” the opener that sets the moody mood of the album ...

Sixteen years after the last Cure album, Robert Smith has created an unrelentingly serious and sad work unlike anything his band has done in the past.

Musically, it’s textbook Cure, alternately mesmerizing with minor ... toast with bitter dregs/to our emptiness,” he sings on “Alone”) and explores grief (“Something wicked this way ...

Back then I had a friend who was obsessed with The Cure. When I rang the bell of his ... Smith’s vocals appear in the final third of “Alone” – a disorienting warning at the start of ...

Songs of a Lost World is the triumphant power-doom epic it needed to be, fully the Cure’s best since Disintegration, as Smith ...

Advertisement Songs of a Lost World begins with "Alone," which Smith earlier described as "the track that unlocked the record," and concludes with Track 8, "Endsong." The Cure had previously ...

Cure fans have spent 16 years lighting candles ... “This is the end of every song I sing,” and closes with “Left alone with nothing at the end of every song.” In between, he gets dark.