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 Cure maintains their signature sound without feeling dated, providing a moving experience from beginning to end. While it ...

“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.

You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again. It takes over three minutes of “Alone” — the first song on their new album ...

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 ...

The Cure breaks a 16-year drought with its new "Songs of a Lost World," leading the first November batch of new music ...

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.

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 ...

(Fiction/Capitol Records via AP) You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again. It takes over three minutes of “Alone” — the first ...

It’s an album that begins with the line “This is the end of every song I sing,” and closes with “Left alone with nothing at ...