The Cure have announced a 30th anniversary reissue of their ninth studio album, ‘Wish’ – find all the details below.Released in 1992, the record features the singles ‘Friday I’m In Love’, ‘High’ and ‘A Letter To Elise’.
It reached Number One on the UK albums chart, and Number Two on the Billboard 200 in the US.Today (July 28), The Cure confirmed that the special deluxe edition of ‘Wish’ will arrive on October 7 via UMC/Fiction/Polydor.
You can pre-order/pre-save it here (the 2LP versions comes out on November 25).The forthcoming collection includes the full original album, which has been remastered by frontman Robert Smith and Miles Showell at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in north-west London.It also boasts 24 previously-unreleased tracks – including demos, instrumentals and rare 12″ mixes – as well as four songs that will be coming to CD and digital platforms for the first time.The 3xCD edition comes with four tracks from ‘Lost Wishes’, a 1993 mail-order only cassette, that have never been available on CD or streaming.You can listen to ‘Uyea Sound’ from that cassette below.Per a press release notes, ‘Wish’ came about during demo sessions at The Live House in Cornwall and continued at Farmyard Studios in the Cotswolds. “We got around 40 songs put down during those two sessions,” Smith remembered.
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