Finally after sixteen years of silence in terms of new material in form of an album, the first single song from the upcoming LP saw the light of the world of music. Again, the English survivors and the solid component of music milieu, widely speaking, The Cure band led of course by no one else but Robert Smith are coming back really strong and with no wane in the atmosphere which they created from the beginning of their career. Slowly but surely they evolved throughout the years, and they still do.
The composition starts from a dreamy drums and the familiar, for The Cure, kind of a wall of sound, but very refreshing and with a zero repeating pattern from the past. Perpetual and long sonic loop is builded by the bass guitar and electronic piano with a curtain of the electronic samples which beautifully covers everything in the background as a soft and endless wave.
The song is progressing and almost in the middle part Robert's vocals starts to appear. The lyrical side of this amazing band was always with a pinch of something indescribable and surely the listener can feel this in “Alone”. My first impression was really strange. As a huge fan of the band, loving the lyrical content of every song they’ve released, I felt strange simultaneously because before I dove deeper into the meaning I assumed that this is a very sad tune. The interpretation is always hard to establish in one way and say that is final, especially if it’s about bands like The Cure. It’s not about praising anyone, it’s just a fact. Every attempt to try to understand thoughts of an artist of any kind should be individual and in my short attempt of interpretation right here this song treats about the old ways of us all, how we actually live. We evolving as a habitants on our Gaia, lovely planet and we should process our existence, shed the proverbial old skin and discover a new and great things because in fact, as stated in the lyrics “Where did it go?”..
I think it’s also about the confusion, what is going on, on the planet right now, that we don’t even really know where we are heading to. Reflection must come to every soul naturally, but surely must occur somehow…
Deepness of the song is just setting the mind of a listener I think for the hunger to digest more what will gonna come in the whole content of the upcoming album. This is a beautiful representative of what we can expect in the next month and in my opinion the expectations can be set high because, as Robert Smith said in an interview few years ago that he’ll not gonna release anything (musically of course) until he will “feel this from the inside” and will be sure that it’s natural and obviously worth to put out for the world’s ears”.
Heading forward in this lifetime every day in every way as much as I can best, that's why I can’t wait to write you review of the whole album ASAP just when the LP will see a daylight :)
Stay tuned you lovely children of Gaia!
Peace.
