The Cure have released another snippet of a song from their upcoming album, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.
The bittersweet new song, titled ‘And Nothing Is Forever’, is the second track from the new record, which is due to be released next month. The snippet is an emotional instrumental segment of the track, featuring melodic keys and powerful strings.
The clip has been sent via their Whatsapp channel and can be accessed by unlocking this website, which can be done by entering the album’s release date (November 1st, 2024).
Listen to a fan-grabbed screen recording of the new snippet below:
The Cure – And Nothing is Forever (fragment)#thecure #thecurepl #songsofalostworld pic.twitter.com/j63Rin9wDY
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In a five-star review of the upcoming album, NME compared the track to classics such as ‘Plainsong’ and ‘Pictures of You’. “That bittersweetness is an art for The Cure,” it read. “And you can rank ‘And Nothing Is Forever’ among gems like classics ‘Plainsong’ and ‘Pictures Of You’ as another masterfully euphoric sigh.”
Last week in a new and long-ranging interview filmed by the band for fans in conversation with Matt Everitt (shared via unlocking their ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ website), frontman Robert Smith shared that writing about his brother’s death in the upcoming album helped him “enormously”.
Speaking about how he approached addressing such a personal and emotional topic on ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’, he explained to Everitt that he decided to tackle it in a simple, narrative way.
“I wrote this song a lot of different ways, until I hit on a very simple narrative of what actually happened on the night he died,” he said. “It went all around the houses and I went everywhere with this song to sum up how I felt. In the end, it turned into a reasonably bleak little vignette.
“I wrote the song about it, and the music itself was what I wanted to breathe. I didn’t want the words to dominate the song, in a way that the music can become a backdrop to what you’re singing. In this, I think the music is more important than what I’m singing in a way. It’s a very difficult song to sing. People say ‘cathartic’ too much, but it was. It allowed me to deal with it, and I think it’s helped me enormously.”
In other The Cure-related news, the band is set to play a special intimate show at the BBC Radio Theatre in London on October 30 ahead of another small gig at the Troxy in the capital on November 1. Fans can watch the latter date via a free global live-stream.
