Robert Smith on why he dislikes The Cure’s ‘4:13 Dream’: “It was nowhere near what I wanted it to be”

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Robert Smith has opened up about his relationship with The Cure‘s ‘4:13 Dream’, saying that he isn’t a fan of how it turned out.The frontman looked back at the 2008 record during a new interview with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, in which he celebrated the release of the band’s latest LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.Released last month, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ marked the long-awaited follow-up to ‘4:13 Dream’ and saw The Cure bag their first Number One album in the UK in 32 years.Reflecting on his relationship with ‘4:13 Dream’ nearly 16 years on, Smith revealed that the finished product didn’t match the initial vision he had, partly because he wanted it to be much longer.“If I’m really honest I was trying to make an album in 2008 which was a double album and it was really odd,” he began. “It had all kinds of stuff on it, instrumental stuff – and I was pressured into reducing it all down into a single album… I have never felt happy about it. “He continued, suggesting that he has been tempted to resume work on the album to help finally capture the vision he initially had “I bristle a little bit about it.

At some point, before I fall over, I’m determined…” he said.“There are 13 songs from those sessions that never got released.

It was a double album and the whole idea of ‘4:13 Dream’ was that it was like a fever dream. As it turned out, it wasn’t. It was nowhere near what I wanted it to be.“I learnt a lesson [from that], and maybe that’s why we didn’t make another album for such a long time!

I hated the idea of delivering it to the deadline. It was my own fault. I should’ve just ignored everyone. I was so sickened by the process of [being] commodified, and it really did upset me a lot.”Back in 2008, the record was given a.