The Cure returned in 2024 with Songs of a Lost World, which marked their first new album in 16 years. However in a latest interview on John Kennedy’s Radio X show, frontman Robert Smith revealed that the band’s follow-up LP will arrive “hopefully earlier than subsequent summer season.”
Smith advised Kennedy that he’s been exhausting at work ending the brand new album, which encompasses a pair of songs that had been supposed for Songs of a Misplaced World however didn’t make the minimize. “In 2019 we recorded 24 songs for what was going to be a double album, and people eight have come out,” Smith stated, later elaborating that the brand new album might be “in all probability 10 songs.”
He continued: “The companion piece to Songs Of A Misplaced World, which might be out hopefully earlier than subsequent summer season, is what I’m presently ending. I simply want to combine it. It’s not as darkish in some methods, though it truly has in all probability the saddest track of all of them on it. It has a few songs that we had been taking part in stay which didn’t make it onto Songs Of A Misplaced World and it has some fully new stuff that nobody’s ever heard. But it surely’s in all probability extra diversified, I feel.”
Relating to the tracks that can land on their new album, Smith teased “It Can By no means Be the Identical,” a minimize first debuted in 2016 that Smith described as a “track of grief… a really, very outdated track which we’ve been taking part in for an extended, very long time.” He additionally named “A Boy I By no means Knew,” which was written for The Remedy’s 2004 self-titled effort. “I feel that might in all probability make it on [the new album],” Smith stated, “That’s a tragic track, however in a totally totally different manner. That’s me singing a few boy that died 1,000,000 years in the past. Concerning the demise of humanity earlier than it began, I feel… or one thing.”
Imagine it or not, Smith additionally teased a third album within the works for The Remedy. “Having completed this one (Songs of a Misplaced World), the second is just about completed as effectively,” he stated. “The third one is a little more tough as a result of, effectively if we get that far… Speaking in regards to the third album, you see what I imply? I simply can’t assist myself.” It’s not the primary time he’s referenced a 3rd new Remedy album, telling Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry final yr that whereas the follow-up to Songs of a Misplaced World is extra of a “companion piece” to the album, the third report is “fully totally different.” “It’s actually sort of random stuff, like late-night studio stuff,” Smith stated, “However a few of it’s actually good truly, it’s simply very very totally different.”
Basically, Robert Smith and The Remedy have discovered themselves in one other prolific interval late of their profession, and hopefully Smith’s summer season benchmark finally ends up being actual. For now, revisit Songs of a Lost World, which landed on our checklist of the 50 best albums of 2024.
