Will fans soon hear songs from The Cure's new album?
While it's not clear as to when will this happen, it's most certain that the English rock band who has finally received a favorable settlement to its seven-long-year lawsuit against its label company is going to do a new album.
In an interview with with NME, Robert Smith shared details about their upcoming album, revealing what songs should fans expect once it hit shelves in the future.
"There's new stuff that we're doing with this line-up and stuff we finished with the old line up," Smith confirmed.
While in a seperate interview with Uncut, Smith wittingly made joke about the title of The Cure's new album, saying that it will mostly be titled "4:14 Scream," as a remark to their last album "4:13 Dream."
He even said that while it's "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."
And while The Cure is very much ready to celebrate their successful lawsuit, Robert Smith wanted to share the band's experience during the lenghty ordeal.
"Honestly? Just pure bloody mindedness," Smith told NME of their struggle. "I was so f***ing angry that [the label] wouldn't release a double album that I wouldn't give them the other songs."
Evenmore, Smith revealed that the band had also suffered from losing some of its core members due to the lawsuit, but he assured fans that with their new guitarist Reeves Gabrels, who has been with the band since 2012, everything with their new album is right on track.
"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."
