While The Cure has yet to announce the official release date to their new album, Robert Smith has hinted that it will include old tracks.
Following the lengthy lawsuit that the English rock band had to overcome, Smith and the rest of the band are now ready for their new album.
While he won't reveal much about the new album, Smith said in an interview with NME that their upcoming record would most likely include "the old line up."
"There's new stuff that we're doing with this line-up and stuff we finished with the old line up," Smith confirmed.
When it comes to the title, Smith joked in an interview with Uncut that it will be "4:14 Scream," as a reference to The Cure's last album "4:13 Dream."
And while he admitted that it is "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."
In addition to discussing the new album. Smith also shared the band's experience in dealing with the seven-year-long lawsuit that badly affected The Cure.
"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."
And during the whole ordeal, Robert Smith admitted that they lost some of the band's core members. However, he assured loyal fans that with their new guitarist, Reeves Gabrels, everything is on the right 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."
