The Cure announce release details of comeback single ‘Alone’

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The Cure have shared full release details of their comeback single ‘Alone’.The track, which is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, will be released this Thursday (September 26) via Fiction/Polydor.

You can pre-save it here.The single will debut on Mary Anne Hobbs’s BBC Radio 6Music show at 12pm BST with further “details about the album” also being released that day, according to a press release.The band have also shared the artwork for the single, in a clip which you can view below.It comes after a snippet of the new comeback single was shared last Friday (September 20).ALONEOUT SEPT 26 | 12PM BST | 7AM EST | 9PM AESTEXCLUSIVE FIRST PLAY WITH #MARYANNEHOBBS @BBC6Music pic.twitter.com/CZbqle5coE— The Cure (@thecure) September 23, 2024For those who signed up to the band’s site and joined their Whatsapp community, a message was sent out which read: “Want to hear ‘Alone’?”.

It was sent with the option to click ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.Anyone who clicked ‘Yes’ received a 12-second audio clip, alongside a message saying that they could “discover more at songsofalost.world”.In the preview, the sound seemed to capture the same essence as The Cure’s earlier discography.

It fades in, before erupting into an ambient guitar verse and a dramatic drum melody.From then, those who logged into the site got to see a slow, ghostly riff played, as Smith sings: “This is the end of every song we sing“.