Robert Smith names one song from each The Cure album that would fit on ‘Songs Of A Lost World’

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Robert Smith has named one song from each of The Cure’s albums that he thinks would fit in with the sound of new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.The long-awaited new album – which will follow 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’ – has already been previewed by two singles: ‘Alone’ and ‘A Fragile Thing’.

It is set to arrive on November 1, and you can pre-order it here.Now, in a lengthy new interview with the frontman posted to the band’s new website over the weekend, Smith was asked by BBC Radio DJ Matt Everitt what his top 10 Cure songs of all time were.“There’s no such thing as my 10 favourite Cure songs.

If I answer now I’d change it halfway though,” he quipped, before suggesting that he should pick songs from his past discography that he “would’ve liked to have written for this album.”Among those listed were the title tracks from both ‘Three Imaginary Boys’ and ‘Faith’ – with the former being described as a song that “still resonates” with him and the latter being named as the first track that he ever felt “really, really proud of”.The ‘Seventeen Seconds’ track ‘At Night’ was also listed, with Smith saying: “We play that a lot live.