Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The Cure released Songs of a Lost World , their first new album in nearly two decades, on Friday. "It sequences in such a way that I think that it kind of takes you somewhere ," said lead singer and guitarist Robert Smith . "You end up somewhere different than where you started out and hopefully people will react to it." Advertisement Songs of a Lost World begins with "Alone," which Smith earlier described as "the track that unlocked the record," and concludes with Track 8, "