The Cure has been really quiet following the release of their 2008 record "4:13 Dream," but now the English rock band is already working on new songs for their upcoming album.
The band's frontman Robert Smith told NME that now only are they working on new tracks they are also going to include songs from their unreleased album.
"There's new stuff that we're doing with this line-up and stuff we finished with the old line up," Smith said of the new album.
While the 56-year-old musician did not mention anything about the release date, he quipped that the working title for their new record called, "4:14 Scream" is actually "a dreadful title. Andy who does our covers has done a really great album cover for it, a kind of pastiche of me doing a scream, so maybe we'll keep it. It's one of those reverse psychology things, where it's so bad it's good," Uncut reported.
Furthermore, Smith shared the band's experience following a mishap with their label company, when it decided not to release a double album last 2008.
"Honestly? Just pure bloody mindedness," he said of the situation. "I was so f*cking angry that [the label] wouldn't release a double album that I wouldn't give them the other songs."
He also mentioned that it was not easy for him to work on a new line-up again, since he already developed a strong band with his former line-up. However with new guitarist Reeves Gabrels, everything became better and The Cure has now been able to get to work on a new album.
"A lot of stuff happened, unfortunately, with the last line-up of the band," Smith explained. "People forget sometimes that even when you get older, when you play music with people, there's a very intense relationship there and when that breaks down then it's very difficult to just pretend it doesn't matter."
"The last line-up, there were a number of reasons why I felt unable to complete what we were doing. It was impossible to just get another line-up and bang out the songs we didn't release; it would have been wrong."
