Robert Smith teases when to expect The Cure’s next album, featuring “the saddest song” of recent batch

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The Cure‘s Robert Smith has teased fans on when they can expect the band’s next album, featuring “the saddest song” of their recent batch.While appearing as a guest on X-Posure with John Kennedy on Radio X, the ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ singer opened up about when the legendary rockers would release their next album which will serve as a follow-up to their 14th studio LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’– their first since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘.Smith revealed that he is “already finishing” the band’s next album and teased that it can potentially receive a release as early as next summer.

Kennedy asked Smith about the ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ tracklist, questioning: “There’s only eight songs on the album, but you alluded to the fact that there are another 32 songs that you recorded in 2019, was it?”“Over the period prior to 2019 as well,” Smith responded, adding: “In 2019 we recorded 24 songs for what was going to be a double album, and those eight have come out.”After discussing the massive amount of tracks that have been created, Kennedy asked: “And so that means there’s a lot more to come.

Is that right?,” to which Smith responded: “There are another two – two eight track albums if we wanted. But I think that the next one will be probably 10 songs.“I’m finishing the next one.

I just can’t decide on the running order. It’s always which ones fit together best. We always had about 14 songs, 15 songs left over from the ‘4:13 Dream’ sessions as well.