Are The Cure Preparing Fans for New Album Announcement?
Sixteen years after their last studio album, 2008’s “4:13 Dream” (read our review here), The Cure seem ready to announce their long-awaited next full-length effort, whose title frontman Robert Smith had revealed, “Songs of the lost world”, in 2022. Fans have started to speculate that the album’s announcement is imminent after the band’s official website and profile pictures on their social media channels, along with those of their respective band members, were updated yesterday, September 9.
The Cure’s social media pages have been updated with a graphic that features a new band logo on a completely black background. The image change has led fans of the group to hope for the arrival of a new album: “Album announcement?”, “Come on, announce the new album. I want to hear the studio version of those new songs you played at Leeds 2022”, “Come on guys, announce the new album! I hope you do it soon along with a new tour!”, are some of the comments found on Facebook.
At the same time, guitarist Reeves Gabrels shared on his official Facebook and X/Twitter profiles a link that, accompanied by the hashtag #songsofalostworld, refers to the updated Cure website where you can subscribe to the mailing list. While Eden, son of bassist Simon Gallup (who replaced his father in a series of dates in 2019), published on social media the verse of the new song “Alone”: “This is the end of every song that we sing…”
“Alone” is one of the new songs already played live by The Cure in the last two years and that should be included in the new album “Songs of the lost world”. Other songs already presented live during the world tour two years ago are “A fragile thing” – played for the first time during the concert in Milan on November 4, 2022, “Another happy birthday”, “And nothing is forever”, “I can never say goodbye” and “Endsong”. Two of these new songs (“And nothing is forever” recorded in Montpellier in 2022 and “I can never say goodbye” from the concert in Toulouse) will be included in the vinyl “The Cure – November: Live in France 2022” coming out next October 1.
