The Cure's next album could be released before the summer of 2025. Robert Smith said it. If that were true, the band would have waited 16 years to release Songs of a Lost World and only a few months for the next album.
For years Robert Smith has been talking about the many Cure albums he has recorded or almost. This time, however, the way in which the last one was received pushes him to think that it is the right time to finish the pieces he has in hand. In fact, he's already doing it. He told it to X-Posure with John Kennedy adding that the album will contain “our saddest song” among the last recorded by the Cure.
Of the 24 songs they have recorded, the Cure have so far released eight in Songs of a Lost World. «There are two other albums with eight songs, although I think the next one will have ten. I'm finishing it. I can't decide what the order of the songs will be, the ones that go best together. We also have 14, 15 songs left from the sessions 4:13 Dream. I never thought about revisiting it, but the way the last one was received leads me to think that maybe it's the right time to review that material and publish it, finishing singing and mixing it.”
At this moment, meanwhile, Smith is completing what he has long called a “companion piece” of Songs of a Lost World. «I just have to mix it. It's not as dark in some ways, even if it contains the saddest song among those recorded in recent times. «There are a couple of pieces that we played live, but which didn't make it into Songs of a Lost World and brand new stuff that no one has ever heard of. I would say it is more varied.”
During one of Listening Parties by Tim Burgess, Smith also spoke of a third album «completely different, a collection of material randomlike stuff recorded in the studio late at night. But some pieces are really good, they're quite different.”
Last Friday the Cure released the album live (also in streaming). Songs of a Live World: Troxy London MMXXIV whose royalties will go to War Child. It is the live version of the latest album, song by song, recorded on the evening of its release last November 1st.
