The Cure album poster appears in Crawley pub where they played their first gig

14 September, 2024

The Cure's Robert Smith

A poster advertising The Cure‘s new album has appeared at the Crawley pub where they played their first gig.

The poster was displayed in a frame at The Railway Inn in the band’s hometown, where the band first performed in 1978. It features the title of their new album, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.

According to a fan on X/Twitter, who called the pub to ask about it, it was delivered on Thursday (September 12) and has since brought many fans of The Cure to visit. A fan meet-up is apparently planned for later today (September 14).

This week, The Cure sent fans postcards seemingly confirming their new album title and release date. Their long-awaited album, their first in 16 years, will purportedly arrive on November 1.

Earlier this week (September 9), it looked like The Cure were finally teasing a new album, after the band took to their official social media pages, swapping out their previous profile picture for a new one comprised of a different new logo with an all-black background.

Guitarist Reeves Gabrels also shared a link directing fans to the band’s redesigned website and urged them to sign up for the mailing list. Eden, the son of bassist Simon Gallup (who stood in for his father on a run of 2019 dates), also excited fans by posting the lyrics from new song ‘Alone’: “This is the end of every song that we sing…”

The news comes ahead of the release of the band’s two new songs as live recordings that will be a double A-side for climate charity Earth Percent.

Released via Naked Record Club – a record label that releases limited edition records on sustainable vinyl – ‘The Cure – Novembre: Live in France 2022’ is a double A-Side 12” Eco-Vinyl single featuring two live tracks that were recorded during the French leg of the band’s ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour.

The first song, ‘And Nothing Is Forever’ was recorded live in Montpellier at the Sud de France Arena on November 8 2022, while ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ was recorded live in Toulouse, Zénith, on November 13 2022. These are the first new tracks from The Cure in 16 years.

Back in 2022, The Cure also performed two other new tracks titled ‘Alone’ and ‘Endsong’ while kicking off their world tour. All of the unreleased songs are speculated to be featured on the band’s long-awaited new album, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, which would mark their first LP in 16 years, following from 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘.

In a four-star review of their live performance at London’s OVO Arena Wembley during that year, NME noted Smith took the time to promise “that the new songs ‘won’t be new for much longer.’”

The review also described the new tracks, sharing: “The ticking clock piano rhythms and rolling bass of ‘A Fragile Thing’ accompany the promise that there’s “nothing you can do to change the end”, while ‘Endsong’ is a stunning, sprawling soundscape to portray Smith utterly lost in a universe where there’s “Nothing left of all I loved”.

“The truly devastating heart of the new material previewed comes with ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ – where howling guitars match the singer’s fear of “shadows growing closer now” as “something wicked this way comes, to steal away my brother’s life”. You feel that these songs are for those who mean the world to him.”

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