After being in the shadows for almost a decade The Cure is finally making a new album.
The English rock band who finally received a favorable settlement for their seven-year-long lawsuit against its label is finally ready to get right back in track.
The band's frontman, Robert Smith, revealed to NME that this new The Cure album will actually include both old and new songs.
"There's new stuff that we're doing with this line-up and stuff we finished with the old line up," Smith revealed.
And in a separate interview with Uncut, Smith even joked that the new album will most likely be called "4:14 Scream," in reference to their last record, "4:13 Dream," which eventually turned into a nightmare.
And while he admitted that it is "a dreadful title," he said that Andy, the person who is regularly working on their cover arts "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 as The Cure gets ready to move forward and make good new music, Robert Smith wanted to share to everyone what the band went through in the whole 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."
More so, Smith explained how The Cure got back on its feet with the help of new guitarist, Reeves Gabrels, after some of their key members decided to leave because the lawsuit was taking too long.
"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."
Additionally, he explained why it took so long for The Cure to come up with new songs and of course a new album.
"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."
