
From Loudersound.
Robert Smith reports that the deaths of his mother, father and brother have shaped the sound on The Cure’s highly anticipated new album.
Last year, The Cure revealed they were planning their first album since 2008’s 4:13 Dream.
They’ve spend much of the time since then on tour and recently delivered an epic set as Glastonbury headliners and celebrated a triumphant return to Scotland earlier this month – the first time they’ve played in the country for 27 years.
Now, vocalist and guitarist Robert Smith has spoken with NME and revealed that personal loss has shaped the sound of the record – and he’s also revealed the working title.
He says: “It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum. I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me.
“It’s not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like Disintegration. I was trying to create a big palette – a big wash of sound.”
He adds: “The working title was Live From the Moon, because I was enthralled by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing in the summer.
“We had a big moon hanging in the studio and lunar-related stuff lying around. I’ve always been a stargazer.”
The Cure are hoping to complete work on the album later this year.
The band will also release The Cure 40 Live: Curætion 25 + Anniversary on October 18.
Curætion 25: From There To Here / From Here To There was filmed on the final night of the 25th Meltdown festival in 2018 that was curated by Smith – a performance which saw The Cure play a track from each of their studio albums along with new, previously unreleased songs.
Anniversary: 1978-2018 was captured at their British Summer Time show at London’s Hyde Park in 2018 in celebration of The Cure’s 40th anniversary.
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- The Cure - The Hanging Garden - VG - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $20.40, €16.80 (New Item) (arrived 25-Feb-2021 11:16)on February 27, 2021 at 10:31 pm
THE CURE The Hanging Garden (1982 UK Fiction label limited edition 4-track double vinyl 7" set, also including One Hundred Years plus live versions of A Forest and Killing An Arab, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve [VG] has some notable edge scuffing and ringwear, whilst the vinyl shows few signs of play FICG15)
- The Cure - A Forest - Radio Sleeve - EX - UK - 7" vinyl - £20.00, $27.20, €22.40 (New Item) (arrived 25-Feb-2021 11:08)on February 27, 2021 at 10:31 pm
THE CURE A Forest (1980 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Another Journey By Train, housed in a die-cut Fiction 'Radiophonic' paper sleeve. The sleeve has a small deletion hole in hole in the top right corner and shows some light edge scuffing, whilst the vinyl appears barely played FICS10)
- The Cure - Disintegration - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $34.00, €28.00 (New Item) (arrived 25-Feb-2021 07:42)on February 27, 2021 at 10:31 pm
THE CURE Disintegration (Classic 1989 UK 10-track vinyl LP, including Pictures Of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street and the sublime title track, picture sleeve complete with illustrated lyric inner. The sleeve (VG) has some ringwear and general signs of edge scuffing while the vinyl has some surface scuffs to indicate play FIXH14)
- The Cure - Lullaby - French - 7" vinyl - £12.00, $16.32, €13.44 (Back In Stock) (arrived 16-Feb-2021 07:13)on February 27, 2021 at 10:31 pm
THE CURE Lullaby (1989 French wide centred injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also incl featuring the Remix plus Babble, textured picture sleeve. The delicate sleeve shows only minor storage wear and the vinyl has just the odd light surface scuff)
- The Cure - Lullaby - French - 7" vinyl - £12.00, $16.32, €13.44 (New Item) (arrived 14-Feb-2021 15:52)on February 27, 2021 at 10:31 pm
THE CURE Lullaby (1989 French wide centred injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also incl featuring the Remix plus Babble, textured picture sleeve. The delicate sleeve shows only minor storage wear and the vinyl has just the odd light surface scuff)
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