The Cure member Robert Smith recently opened up on the long wait for their new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘.
Robert Smith talks about new album
The post-punk legends have been hinting at the release of their new album, the follow-up to 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘, for several weeks now. They started by updating their online presence, then sent fans postcards hinting at the album title and release date.
They also put up a poster at the Crawley pub where they played their first gig, beamed projections in cities around the world, and launched a secret website and WhatsApp channel. These platforms later gave fans a short preview of their new single ‘Alone‘.
After the release of the track – which marked their first single in 16 years, the band also confirmed that their 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ will be released on November 1st.
Speaking about the wait for their new LP in a clip shared to the band’s official Instagram account, Smtih shared:
“I don’t think there was really a kind of an official beginning to this album because it’s been kind of drifting in and out of my life for like an awful long time. I mean if I have one regret is that I said anything at all about it in 2019 because I really shouldn’t have done that.”
He continued: “We had only just started creating it. I don’t know, there are various points where I thought ‘I think we are going to make a new album’ and then it’s kind of the idea, sort of like for various reasons, other things have happened and the idea’s been sort of pushed back. So I’m not sure but there have been definite points along the way where I thought ‘Ah, you know, this, you know, whether it be the first song.
“The key, I think, in the history of the band is if I know what the opening song is and I know what the closing song is, I think that’s the album halfway done, you know. That’s the key for an album.”
