Robert Smith reveals wife Mary helped finalise The Cure’s ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ tracklist

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The Cure‘s Robert Smith has revealed that his wife Mary Poole Smith helped him finalise the tracklisting for ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.The band’s 14th studio album was released last Friday (November 1), during a week which saw them play two shows at the iconic BBC Radio Theatre before performing their new record in full at London Troxy’s venue the same day their album was released.Back in 2019, the frontman said the new LP had been shaped by his “experience of life’s darker side” following the deaths of his mother, father and brother.Now, speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music’s Huw Stephens, Smith opened up about how his wife helped him to put the record together.He said: “I was finishing the doom and gloom ones… and [Mary] said no, no, no your best albums are the ones that just have a couple of… more upbeat tracks.

She was right. I wanted to finish everything, because I thought that’s only fair to all the songs, like they’re all little children – I don’t want to pick favourites.”His comments come after he previously said that the band have another new album in the works that’s “virtually finished”, with a third record in the pipeline too.Back in 2020, Smith told NME that the band were hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.In a more recent interview with Matt Everitt, he spoke about the wealth of material – including fan favourite ‘Another Happy Birthday’ aired by the band on tour last year, but not featured on ‘Songs Of A Lost World.“For the oldest song on this album, the demo was done in 2010,” he explained. “They stretched all the way through.

The bulk of them, probably five of them, have been written since 2017. Three of them: one of them was 2010, one was 2011, another was 2013 or 2014.