Robert Smith has named two songs likely to appear on The Cure’s next album.
The band made their triumphant return in 2024 with ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, a record unanimously greeted by fans. A powerful, probing song cycle, The Cure then played a mighty one-off show at London’s Troxy venue, caught for posterity on a live album.
It seems that the band aren’t quite done with this chapter, however. Frontman Robert Smith has teased the possibility of a second LP, appearing as a guest on X-Posure with John Kennedy on Radio X to discuss it a little further.
“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,” he explained. “There’s three songs on it, which are slower than pretty much anything on this album. So I don’t know, it may well end up being heavier than this one.”
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“Lyrically, it’s a very long way from being an upbeat album,” he continued. “It has one song of grief on it which didn’t make it onto this album, which is a very, very old song which we’ve been playing for a long, long time called ‘It Can Never Be the Same’. And I think that this next album will have that song on because I think it’s about time. It used to be called ‘Christmas Without You’.”
“When I first wrote it, it was about my mum dying, but it’s mutated over the years and that’s actually turned into a really powerful live song. That would probably make it on.”
Check out fan footage of The Cure performing ‘It Can Never Be The Same’ at London’s Meltdown festival below.
How does ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ ranks against the band’s catalogue? Check out our list of The Cure’s best songs in the CLASH archive.
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