Care: a new album already “over the next year”

While the care are committed to announceing a series of little by little Live appointments for next summerwith Italian fans waiting for a return to the band in our part, the keyboardist Roger O’donnell turns on the hopes already for a new studio album.

The possibility of listening to unpublished music from the training led by Robert Smith, after the album “Songs of a Lost World“(Here our review) released last year after sixteen years after the previous” 4:13 Dream “, was opened by O’Donnell in a recent interview with NME to talk about his new solo album”Projects“. After his battle against cancer and the return to record with the care, the new album will arrive on October 29 and is the eighth work on his own of the keyboardist and composer.

During the chat, the 69 -year -old musician also found himself talking about the band he has been part since 1987, explaining about Not seeing the time to return to tour with Smith and the other companions during 2026, on the occasion of the Various live events just announced and still to be fixedincluding the ISLE of Wight festivals, the spring sound in Spain, the Øya in Norway, the rock en seine in France, the Nova Rock in Austria and the Open’er in Poland, as well as a series of large outdoor concerts in the United Kingdom and in Ireland.

The interview did not fail to return to the promise of Robert Smith, who even before the release of “Songs of a Lost World” said that the following was “practically finished”. To the new question of the NME if There is still the desire to complete and release a new album in the bandO’donnell explained:

“You should ask Robert. I didn’t even know that ‘Songs of a Lost World’ was over, until he sent us the songs to learn for the concert at the Troxy! I don’t know what is going on. I know that Jason Cooper recorded several traces of drums around April, and there had been talk of finding ourselves to play together, but lately I have not heard. of its very deep creative phases, because at the moment it is quite silent “.

After saying that the group is in the situation of “registering its parts and then left Robert the task of working us indefinitely”, with the hope of not putting “another 18 years”, the keyboardist was thencalzato on the fact that fans can expect the release of the new album “over the course of about next year”and replied:

“I would say yes. We have all been happily surprised by the success of ‘Songs of a Lost World’. That it has achieved those results after so much absence time is fantastic. There is a level under which the care never descend, so everything will always be fantastic – it is just about understanding whether it will be something enormous or not”.

A month before the release of “Songs of a Lost World”, Robert Smith had declared to Matt Evript: “This time he will go to Port. After having finished this, even the second is practically finished. The third is a little more complicated because … well, if we ever get so … here, I’m already talking about a third album, understand what I mean?

By marking the return of the care with their first studio album after 16 years, the release of “Songs of a Lost World” was accompanied by an exclusive concert at the Troxy in London (here our story from London), the only show by Robert Smith and members with paying audience scheduled for 2024 and 2025 after the exclusive shows for the BBC.