The Cure have shared a new song, “A Fragile Thing”, and announced the track listing for their upcoming album Songs Of A Lost World.
The 80s legends shared a snippet of the song on Monday (October 7) and announced that the single would arrive this week, after announcing it via their WhatsApp fan channel and mailing list the day before.
“A Fragile Thing” is a lush and disturbing song that lasts just over four minutes, beginning with a ghostly piano before drums and bass come in, with Robert Smith’s vocals at the forefront of it all. The song may have been influenced by Smith’s loss of his mother, father and brother, something he said in 2019 was the source of some of the “darkness” on the upcoming album.
The single comes after the band released “Alone,” the lead single from the album, which became their first new material since their 2008 album “4:13 Dream,” in September.
“‘A Fragile Thing’ is driven by the difficulties we face in choosing between mutually exclusive needs and how we deal with the futile regret that can follow these choices,” Smith said, “no matter how sure we are that the right choices have been made…it can often be very difficult to be the person you really need to be.”
“Songs Of A Lost World” will be available on November 1, and “A Fragile Thing” is the third track on the album.
The track listing for“Songs Of A Lost World” is:
- ‘Alone’
- And Nothing Is Forever
- A Fragile Thing
- Warsong
- Drone:Nodrone
- I Can Never Say Goodbye
- All I Ever Am
- ‘Endsong
