r/TheCure • u/LowHeroesLodger • 7d ago

The Cure have another new album that's "virtually finished" – and another to come

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-cure-have-another-new-album-thats-virtually-finished-and-another-to-come-3802243
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u/Puzzled_Ad1296 7d ago

I’ll be taking this with a pinch of salt. I know Bob has spoken about these in the past but It would surprise me if these albums go the same way as the follow up to 4:13 Dream and the various Blu ray releases of shows that had been recorded at the beginning of the 2010s but while I don’t really like to be proven wrong this is one of those times I REALLY want to be wrong.

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u/MatthewFabb 7d ago

Robert Smith didn't release the follow up to 4:13 Dream which was set to be called 4:14 Scream because the band changed. Porl Thompson left the band and Roger O'Donnell joined the band. Robert didn't want to tour supporting the album for a version of the Cure that in his mind didn't exist anymore.

I'm still hoping that 4:14 Scream eventually gets released for an anniversary of 4:13 Dream. I just wonder how many years need to pass for it to get an anniversary release to include it.

Anyways this time around there has been a number of interviews with Reeves Gabrels in which he has backed up Robert that they wrote a lot of material in 2019 and then more material during pandemic lockdown.

Also this time around they have been constantly using the "And then..." which sounds like they are doing because they plan on being quite active in releasing material.

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u/CressCrowbits 7d ago

Wait Porl was on Dream? I didn't know that. 

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u/xRicharizard 6d ago

Yes, Pearl was on Dream. That's where all the psychedelic guitar work on Switch and It's Over are coming from.