Robert Smith says The Cure could have another album out ‘before next summer’

The Cure frontman Robert Smith has suggested another album could release before summer this year.

Smith, 65, shared plans for The Cure over the next few years and says new material is already being worked on after the release of Songs of a Lost World last November. Two songs intended for Songs of a Lost World but were later cut were said to be featuring on the as-yet-titled follow-up.

Speaking to John Kennedy at Radio X, Smith confirmed new material was on the way and that all he needed to do was “mix it”. He said: “The companion piece to Songs Of A Lost World, which will be out hopefully before next summer, is what I’m currently finishing. I just need to mix it.

“It’s not as dark in some ways, although it actually has probably the saddest song of all of them on it. It has a couple of songs that we were playing live which didn’t make it onto Songs Of A Lost World and it has some completely new stuff that no one’s ever heard. But it’s probably more varied, I think.”

Smith has since shared the name of the two songs which may feature on the upcoming album, with one more than two decades old and written for the band’s self-titled effort in 2004. It Can Never Be the Same, which was debuted in 2016, is “a very, very old song which we’ve been playing for a long, long time.”

Another feature for the upcoming album could be A Boy I Never Knew, which Smith described as “a sad song, but in a completely different way. That’s me singing about a boy that died a million years ago. About the death of humanity before it started, I think… or something.”

There was further great news for fans of the band as Smith revealed another album separate to this soon to be released work was on the way. He said: “Having finished this one (Songs of a Lost World), the second one is virtually finished as well.

“The third one is a bit more difficult because, well if we get that far… Talking about the third album, you see what I mean? I just can’t help myself.” It comes as Smith previously shared the band had “gone through an awful lot” in the lead-up to Songs of a Lost World.

Smith told BBC Radio 6 Music: “The band’s gone through an awful lot in the last year and I’m making light of it but it becomes … you are inevitably encouraged within your own self just to think more about the day to day than you are about… so I’m looking forward to Christmas, I’m not really looking forward to my 70^th birthday.

“If we get to my 70^th birthday I’m quite happy for you to blow out the candles but, yeah I don’t think it’s tempting fate but I really just, I’m enjoying what we’re doing at the moment and I don’t really see any point in looking beyond it.”