It took the Cure 16 years to release a studio album after 2008’s 4:13 Dream, but it seems that Robert Smith and company are working much more quickly in its wake.
In an updated band biography posted on the Cure’s web site, it is revealed that the musicians spent time this March at Wales’ Rockfield Studios to record “13 more songs” for the follow-up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World. No further details were included beyond the fact that Smith also spent time this summer “to help re-edit and re-mix” the concert film The Show of a Lost World, which was originally streamed on YouTube in November 2024.
“Our songs always had a fear of mortality,” he said in an online interview last year. “I don’t feel my age at all but I’m aware of it, and when you get older, that fear becomes more real. Death becomes more everyday. When you are younger you romanticize death, but then it happens to your family and friends. I am a different person to the last record and I wanted to put that across. It can be trite. People could say, ‘Oh, we’re all going to die — surprise me!’ But I try to find some emotional connection to that idea.”
In June, the Cure rounded up Four Tet, Orbital, Paul Oakenfold, Mogwai and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno for the remix collection Mixes of a Lost World, and that same month, Smith made a surprise appearance at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival with Olivia Rodrigo.
The Cure have only played three times since wrapping an extensive 2023 tour but are planning an extensive European summer tour next year, beginning the first week of June with a headlining performance at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival.
