1. The melancholic song, almost seven minutes long, is the first track from “Songs of a Lost World”, The Cure’s 14th studio album. Their last, “4:13 Dream”, was released in 2008.

The Cure will release their first new song in 16 years on Thursday. The goth rock band shared a short burst of the song titled Alone on social media, along with close-up black and white images of ...

Given that The Cure were no strangers to slapping very odd songs on their actual A-sides, nor to chucking jarringly incongruous tracks into the middle of their biggest albums, the freedom afforded ...