THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Songs Of A Lost World is The Cure’s 14th studio release and their first new album in 16 years. Songs from the record were previewed during the band’s 90-date, 33-country Shows Of A Lost World tour for more than 1.3 million people, garnering overwhelming fan and critical acclaim.
Alone, the first song released from the album, opened every show on the tour. “It’s the track that unlocked the record,” singer-guitarist Robert Smith says. “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. In the back of my mind (I had) 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.”
Songs Of A Lost World was written and arranged by Smith, produced and mixed by Smith and Paul Corkett, and performed by The Cure — Smith on voice / guitar / six-string bass / keyboard; Simon Gallup on bass; Jason Cooper on drums / percussion; Roger O’Donnell on keyboards; and Reeves Gabrels on guitar. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time collaborator, handled the art and design. The cover art features Bagatelle, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
Initially formed in 1978, The Cure have 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. They are considered to be one of the most influential bands to ever come out of the U.K.”
