The last studio album from The Cure was 2008's 4:13 Dream. After a few years of teasing an ambitious and emotionally devastating follow-up, Robert Smith has confirmed the album will be out before their upcoming winter tour that stars in October. After accepting the Icon Award at the Ivor Novellos, Smith talked to NME about the band's future plans. “We will be releasing a new album,” Smith said. “I get fed up of saying this now! We will be playing from October and the new album will be out before then. We walked on [stage at the Ivors today] to a bit of new music, actually. Hopefully no one recorded it!
“Reeves [Gabrels] our guitar player has come over from America for the day just to finish a couple of solos, I’ve got to finish a couple of vocals,” he added. “Essentially it’s a 12 track album. It’s there, it’s kind of half-mixed and half-finished. It’s a weird thing. It’s kind of evolved over the last two years. It hasn’t always been a good thing to have been left alone with it. You pick at it, like picking at seams, and everything falls apart."
Smith also expressed his pride for the forthcoming album: “It’ll be worth the wait. I think it’s the best thing we’ve done. But then I would say that I’m not doing an Oasis when I say that, ‘IT’S THE BEST FOOKIN’ ALBUM’. A lot of the songs are difficult to sing, and that’s why it’s taken me a while.”
See the band's upcoming dates with The Twilight Sad below.
