The commencement to the Fix’s return is only half a month away and on Wednesday (Oct. 9) the Robert Smith-drove bunch pulled back the dark drape somewhat to a greater degree toward their expected Melodies of a Lost World collection by uncovering the track rundown and most recent single, “Something delicate.”
The whirling, midtempo rocker is exemplary Fix, with a grim, almost brief instrumental introduction that sets up a most on-brand story of decimating love. “Each time you kiss me/I could cry she said/Don’t let me know how you miss me/I could pass on this evening of a wrecked heart/This dejection has transformed me/We have been excessively far separated,” Smith sings.
In a clasp from a forthcoming meeting about the band’s fourteenth studio collection — its first since 2008’s 4:13 Dream — Smith discussed the motivation behind the most recent taste of the hotly anticipated LP. “It’s the ‘affection tune’ of the collection, however it’s not exactly an affection melody in the manner that [1989’s] ‘Lovesong’ is an adoration melody,” he said. “It’s about adoration and how love is the most persevering of feelings, I think. It’s the most remarkable inclination, and it’s unbelievably versatile. But simultaneously, inconceivably delicate.”
Understanding that that opinion seems like a Catch 22, Smith added, “I know, and doesn’t actually check out. In any case, I think you understand what I mean. You feel once in a while you’re at risk for obliterating something, but you sort of realize that it can’t be annihilated.” Smith likewise noticed that he attempted to compose the melody, which was initially named “Kill the Sun,” before it definitely different into a last structure that in fact may be all in all too well defined for his kind of sorrow.
“However, I’m trusting that it resounds with others since it’s something general,” Smith said.
The eight-tune collection will highlight the recently delivered single “Alone,” as well as “Something delicate,” three tracks the band appeared live on their 2022-2023 visit, “I Can Never Bid farewell,” “And Nothing Is Always,” and the as of late prodded “Endsong,” and three nobody has heard at this point: “Warsong,” “Drone:NoDrone,” and “All I At any point Am.”
The band as of late declared two private pre-discharge shows in the UK scheduled to occur on Oct. 30 and 31. Melodies of aLost World is expected out on Nov. 1.
Watch the “Something delicate” verse video and Smith’s meeting piece beneath.
