The Cure‘s Robert Smith has revealed that the band have another new album in the works that’s “virtually finished”, with a third record in the pipeline too.The alt-rock icons are set to release their long-awaited 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ – their first since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘ – on November 1.
Back in 2020, Smith told NME that the band were hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.Now, in a full interview recorded for fans in conversation with Matt Everitt that’s due to be shared in full later today (Sunday October 13), Smith has revealed how ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ came to be, and details of leftover material on the way.Smith spoke of how the band originally intended to release a record to celebrate their 40th anniversary.“I felt that we should be summing up,” said Smith. “I thought, ‘The 40th anniversary of the band happens in 2018, and the 40th anniversary of the first album [‘Three Imaginary Boys’] was is 2019, so we’ll do something that sums up what the band is and where we got to.
It was a grand plan – and grand plans generally don’t work very well, in my experience!”He continued: “It wasn’t really being done for the right reasons.
It was a bit ‘triumphal’, I suppose, looking back. The tone of it was wrong. As it turned out, what happened in 2018 was a great way to mark the anniversary of the band.
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