Robert Smith names two songs likely to feature on The Cure’s next album

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Robert Smith has named two songs likely to feature on the next album from The Cure.The band have made it clear for a while now that they’ve been sitting on a wealth of new material since 2008’s 4:13 Dream‘.

Back in 2020, for instance, Smith told NME that they were hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.While appearing as a guest on X-Posure with John Kennedy on Radio X, the ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ singer opened up further about the specific tracks that will appear on their next album, which will serve as a follow-up to their 2024 14th studio LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.“It has a couple of songs that we were playing live which didn’t make it onto ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ and it has some completely new stuff that no one’s ever heard,” he explained. “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.”“Lyrically, it’s a very long way from being an upbeat album,” he continued. “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’.

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’.”“When I first wrote it, it was about my mum dying, but it’s mutated over the years and that’s actually turned into a really powerful live song.