The Cure Has Much More Music on the Way

Goths across the world rejoiced to learn that The Cure would release new music for the first time in 16 years. The post-punk legends have been teasing tracks from Songs Of a Lost World, which drops Nov. 1. However, it appears there’s more where that came from. Lead singer Robert Smith recently revealed that the band has two additional albums in the pipeline—one of which is “virtually finished.”

The Cure Recorded “Three Albums” in 2019

The Cure last released new music in 2008 with 4:13 Dream. However, Robert Smith says they haven’t been merely resting on their laurels for the last 16 years.

“We recorded three albums in 2019; that’s always been the problem. I’ve tried to get three albums completed,” Smith told BBC 6’s Matt Everitt (via NME.) “After waiting this long, I was like, ‘Let’s just throw out Cure albums every few months!’ Everything with hindsight, you think, ‘Really? I could have done that a lot better.’”

All this material was born from an ill-fated plan to commemorate The Cure’s 40th anniversary back in 2018, Smith said.

“I felt that we should be summing up,” said the “Just Like Heaven” singer, 65, adding, “It was a grand plan – and grand plans generally don’t work very well, in my experience!”

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What actually happened was “much more natural,” Smith said. “There was no longer this idea that we were ‘celebrating’ something or marking something – it was becoming something much more artistic, to be honest.”

On the heels of releasing Songs of a Lost World, Smith says the second album is “virtually finished” as well. “The third one is a bit more difficult because, well if we get that far…” he said. “Talking about the third album, you see what I mean? I just can’t help myself.”

Robert Smith Calls Dynamic Ticket Pricing “A Scam”

Robert Smith made headlines last year when he publicly called out Ticketmaster for “unduly fees.” In an unusual move, The Cure’s frontman convinced the ticketing giant to refund some of those fees.

Ticketmaster has previously caught heat for using “dynamic pricing,” meaning prices adjust in real-time based on demand, competition, and other factors.

“We didn’t allow dynamic pricing because it’s a scam that would disappear if every artist said, ‘I don’t want that!’” Smith recently told The Sunday Times. “But most artists hide behind management. ‘Oh, we didn’t know,’ they say.

“They all know,” he continued. “If they say they do not, they’re either f—ing stupid or lying. It’s just driven by greed.”

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