Robert Smith hopes The Cure’s next album will arrive before the summer
The Cure frontman Robert Smith has shared a positive update on The Cure’s next album, which he hopes will arrive before the summer.
In November, The Cure released their first album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World, which topped the charts in the United Kingdom. According to Smith, the wait for their next record will be shorter, and it is now in the final stages.
Smith made the revelation during a new interview on Radio X. In the conversation, he also revealed what to expect from the LP, stating it “has one song of grief on it which didn’t make it onto this album, which is a very, very old song which we’ve been playing for a long, long time called ‘It Can Never Be The Same’.”
He continued: “And I think that this next album will have that song on because I think it’s about time. It used to be called ‘Christmas Without You’.”
In addition, Smith also detailed another song set to appear on the new release called ‘A Boy I Never Knew’, which was initially intended to appear on their self-titled record in 2004. “I think that would probably make it on. That’s a sad song, but in a completely different way. That’s me singing about a boy that died a million years ago. About the death of humanity before it started, I think… or something,” he said of the composition.
Expanding on the sound of The Cure’s next album, Smith added, “There’s three songs on it which are slower than pretty much anything on this album. So I don’t know, it may well end up being heavier than this one.”
He also said that it will “hopefully” arrive “before summer”. At this stage, Smith is “currently finishing” the project which still needs to be mixed.
Smith previously hinted in October that The Cure would release a trilogy of albums, stating that they “recorded about 25 or 26 songs in 2019”. However, he doesn’t want to get ahead of himself regarding the third record until the second is completed, adding, “It will work out this time. Having finished this one, the second one is virtually finished as well. The third one is a bit more difficult because, well if we get that far… Talking about the third album, you see what I mean? I just can’t help myself.”
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