Robert Smith has revealed that a new The Cure album will “hopefully be released before next summer”. “Songs Of A Lost World” was just released in November, their first studio record in 16 years.
“The counterpart to ‘Songs Of A Lost World'”
On the British radio show “X-Posure” on Sunday (December 15th), the singer once again announced that another album was almost finished. Only the final order of the tracks has not yet been determined. “It’s always about which songs go best together,” says Smith. Now, however, the goth rocker has come out with a vague date for the first time. The new LP is “the counterpart to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ and will hopefully be released before next summer,” said the 65-year-old. “It’s not that dark in some ways, although it probably has the saddest song of all.”
In addition to songs already played live that didn’t make it onto the previous album, there will also be completely new material. Robert Smith stated that the group had already recorded 24 tracks for a double album over five years ago. So things don’t look bad for Cure fans in the future. “There could be two more eight-track albums if we want. But I think the next one will probably have ten songs,” said the frontman.
The source of new pieces seems inexhaustible
Only recently did Smith comment on the follow-up works that are in the starting blocks. In an interview with the British “Absolute Radio” at the beginning of December, he said that new Cure LPs were far from over. “Then there is a third one that is completely different. It’s really more random stuff, like late-night studio recordings. But some of it is really good, it’s just very, very different.”
This current announcement follows the recent release of the live album “Songs Of A Live World” from the current record’s exclusive release concert at London’s “Troxy”. What at first glance seems like good recording business for The Cure in the run-up to Christmas actually has an honorable background. The band donates all proceeds from sales to “War Child”, an NGO that supports the future of children in war zones.