NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Goths, rejoice: In the end, The Remedy has launched new music.
“Alone,” their first new tune in 16 years, premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music radio present Thursday morning.
The English band additionally introduced a brand new album, “Songs of A Misplaced World,” to be launched on Nov. 1.
The Remedy teased new music on social media main as much as its launch, sharing a snippet of the tune that featured their trademark layered guitars, metallic percussion and glowing synths. Close to the top, singer Robert Smith jumped in with the gloomy lyrics, “That is the top of each tune that we sing.”
“It’s the monitor that unlocked the report; as quickly as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening tune, and I felt the entire album come into focus,” Smith stated in a press launch. “I had been struggling to search out the best opening line for the best opening tune for some time, working with the easy thought of ‘being alone’, at all times behind my thoughts this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line needs to be… as quickly as we completed recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs’ by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the second after I knew the tune — and the album — have been actual.”
The Remedy has toured within the years since their final album, 2008’s “4:13 Dream,” however has but to launch a brand new album. In 2019, Smith advised Rolling Stone the band had recorded 19 tracks, starting from 10-12 minutes lengthy, and wished to launch a brand new album in Halloween of that 12 months. It didn’t occur.
However now, The Remedy joins an extended listing of 2024 band reunions, which up to now contains everybody from Britpop icons Oasis, who ended a 15-year hiatus and, presumably, the long-held feud between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, to Linkin Park — now with a brand new singer, Useless Sara’s Emily Armstrong — their first performances since the 2017 loss of life of lead singer Chester Bennington.
