Robert Smith on the long wait for The Cure’s ‘Songs Of A Lost World’: “It’s been drifting in and out of my life”

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The Cure‘s Robert Smith has opened up about the long wait for their new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘.The post-punk legends have been teasing the follow-up to 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘ for some weeks now, starting by changing their online presence before sending fans postcards alluding to the album title and release date, putting up a poster at the Crawley pub where they played their first gig, beaming projections in cities around the world, and launching a secret website and WhatsApp channel that would later give fans a short taster of their new single ‘Alone‘.Following the release of the track – which marked their first single in 16 years – the band also confirmed that their 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ will be released on November 1 and is available to pre-order now here.Now, speaking about the wait for their new LP in a clip shared to the band’s official Instagram account, Smtih shared: “I don’t think there was really a kind of an official beginning to this album because it’s been kind of drifting in and out of my life for like an awful long time.

I mean if I have one regret is that I said anything at all about it in 2019 because I really shouldn’t have done that.”A post shared by The Cure (@thecure)He continued: “We had only just started creating it.

I don’t know, there are various points where I thought ‘I think we are going to make a new album’ and then it’s kind of the idea, sort of like for various reasons, other things have happened and the idea’s been sort of pushed back.

So I’m not sure but there have been definite points along the way where I thought ‘Ah, you know, this, you know, whether it be the first song.“The key, I think, in the history of the band is if I know what the opening song is and I know what.