The Cure will release their first new album in 16 years on November 1st via Fiction/Capitol. The long-awaited 14th album from The Cure, Songs Of A Lost World, was previewed during the band’s 90-date, 33-country “Shows Of A Lost World’ tour.”

The first song released from the new collection “Alone” (not the first single) is almost 7 minutes long and opened every show on the tour. Robert Smith says, “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. 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.”Watch the lyric video HERE.

The Cure will reveal the rest of the track listing for the record over the coming weeks. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Robert Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle’, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

Initially formed in 1978, The Cure has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, headlined the Glastonbury festival four times and been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019.