While Robert Smith and the rest of The Cure band members have suffered greatly from the lengthy lawsuit against their former record label, the English rock band is now ready to make a new album.
While they have yet to reveal when they are planning to release the new record, The Cure, who recently received a favorable settlement from its seven-year-long lawsuit is said to be actively gearing up.
In his efforts to give fans an idea on what to expect about their new music, Robert Smith gamely shared details about their new album in an interview with NME.
"There's new stuff that we're doing with this line-up and stuff we finished with the old line up," Smith confirmed.
Meanwhile in a separate interview with Uncut, Smith made fun of the new album's titled, joking that it would be called "4:14 Scream," as a reference to The Cure's last album "4:13 Dream."
Adding that while it is definitely "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 has moved on from the frustrating lawsuit events, Robert Smith wanted to share the band's experience during the said challenges as the band progress.
"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."
He added that The Cure suffered from losing some of the core members of the group due to the preceedings, but at the same time Robert Smith assured fans that with new guitarist Reeves Gabrels, on board the new album is in good hands.
"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."
