When the Cure released Songs of a Lost World in 2024, the band also delivered the news that enough songs were created to fill a second record rather quickly. In fact, now, according to an interview Robert Smith did with BBC 6 Music recently, the Cure is also close to having a third album from the initial recordings that's being worked on.
As good as the group's most recent album was, which was also their first since 4:13 Dream in 2008, it received mostly positive reviews. Many argued that the record ranked among the band's best. For certain, Songs of a Lost World was deep, consistent, wonderfully moody, and brilliantly conceived.
Due to the excellence of the 2024 album, any future albums are going to be highly anticipated, too. No release dates are yet set, though the next record's production has wrapped, and is being delivered to the Cure's label, Universal, and once that occurs, a release date will be set.
The Cure could be delivering two new albums somewhat soon
Smith claims that the next album will be darker than Songs of a Lost World, which definitely had elements of doom. What carried it through were the shimmering moments of hope that broke through the darkness. The album was a mature work by a reflective band, mostly, of course, from Smith.
The third record, which doesn't seem to be complete, is promised to be far more poppy. Smith told the BBC, via NME, that some might see the later album as being influenced by his recent work with rock-pop star Olivia Rodrigo. He dismissed that presumption somewhat slightly, but did confess to the poppiness.
Smith said, "The third one is weird, actually. Now I’ve been doing this, people think, ‘Ah, it’s because he’s been working with Olivia, because the third one is actually really upbeat. It’s really poppy, but it doesn’t compare melodically to the stuff that Olivia does, but it’s my idea of Cure Pop. It’s probably 20 BPM slower than anything she does."
Not that longtime fans of the Cure would be shocked by the band coming up with pop tunes. This is the same group that has delivered "Friday I'm in Love," after all. Smith grew up on pop in the 1960s, so he understands what goes into making a fantastic track.
Still, the Cure is mostly viewed as a goth band that mines the darkness for gloom-and-doom gems. The band, which is truly only Robert Smith at the end of the day as he formed the group in the late-1970s, and is the only constant member over the last nearly 50 years, has made some of the best music of its ilk, and the new albums are probably going to be terrific, too.
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