The Cure Might Have Announced the Title and Release Date of a New Album

13 Sep at 21:40

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Robert Smith of The Cure executes on the Pyramid phase on day 5 of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 30, 2019 in Glastonbury, England.

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The long wait seems over: The Cure might have verified the launch day of their initial LP in 16 years in postcards sent out to followers.

Earlier today, conjecture placed that a statement was inbound when the team upgraded social media sites account photos.

Now followers of the band have actually obtained puzzling postcards in the mail that show up to validate the cd title (Songs of a Lost World) and launch day. Roman characters which convert toNov 1, 2024, are embossed near the bottom on the cards. See the blog posts listed below.

@CraigatCoF pic.twitter.com/P2Io9BTQeg

— Simon Aston (@SimonAston 12) September 12, 2024

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— Andrew (@theboytemps) September 12, 2024

The Cure launched their newest cd, 4:13 Dream, in 2008, which landed atNo 16 on the Billboard 200. The postcards come among a flurry of task for the band. Last month, the band launched an unique dual A-side plastic including real-time variations of 2 brand-new tunes, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” videotaped in 2022 on their Shows Of A Lost World excursion and launched by means of Naked Vinyl, a document tag that concentrates on lasting plastic. The follows the launch will certainly go in the direction of the environment activity charity Earth Percent, which was started by Brian Eno.

The LP has actually been long reviewed by Robert Smith in meetings. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in 2019, he criticized himself for several of the hold-ups. “I keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say that’s it. It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum,” Smith included. “I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me. It’s not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like Disintegration, I suppose. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound.”

Elsewhere, Cure participant Roger O’Donnell lately revealed that he had actually been “diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma” in 2023 however had actually because recuperated.