The Cure tease the release of Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years, with a poster outside the English bar where they played their very first gig

Robert Smith, 2023.

The Cure have delivered cryptic hints suggesting that their first album in 16 years will arrive this year.

It appears as if this Friday 13th will be remembered as a lucky one for fans of Robert Smith's band, as Songs of a Lost World, The Cure's long, long-awaited follow-up to 2008's 4:13 Dream, is tipped to arrive on November 1. 

In a fabulously minimalist and old school promotion for the record, a single poster with the name of the album, and Roman numerals which, when converted to the British day/month form, translate to November 1, 2024, was placed outside The Railway bar in Crawley, West Sussex. The pub just happens to be the venue where Smith's band played their very first show, back in 1978.