Robert Smith on The Cure’s new “companion piece” album that is “ready to go” and another of “completely random stuff”

nme.com:

Robert Smith has shared more details about a new Cure album which is set to be a “companion piece” to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, as well as a third album that takes a different approach.The frontman spoke about new material from the band during an interview with Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry, as part of a special version of Tim Burgess’ Listening Parties.

It came following the release of the alt-rock icons long-awaited 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ – their first since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘ – on November 1.It’s been known for a while now that the band have been sitting on more new material since 2008.

Back in 2020, for instance, Smith told NME that the band were hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.Now, Smith has shared an update on the new material, and said that one is complete and comes as somewhat of a sibling record to their recently shared LP. “There is another album which is pretty much ready to go.

It’s sort of its companion piece,” he said, adding that there is material written for yet another album that takes a different approach. “There’s a third one which is completely different.