The Cure have been teasing their next album – and the one after it. Here’s everything we know about the Songs of a Lost World follow-up so far.
When did the Cure start teasing a new album?
In 2025, frontman Robert Smith mentioned that the band had completed a new album. He discussed it further in a recent interview with BBC 6 Music, saying, “We did the initial recording of Songs of a Lost World in 2019. We did record three albums’ worth of songs. So the second one’s done. So that’s about to be delivered to Universal. The third one is really, really upbeat. It’s really poppy.” He added, “What we’ve been putting out in the last couple of years, it’s really rockin’, it’s bangin’. But the next one, if anything, it’s more dismal than Songs of a Lost World. I mean, ‘dismal,’ that’s a horrible word to use! But it’s quite dark emotionally. It’s related to Songs Of A Lost World, but it’s a different perspective on things.”
What does Robert Smith mean by “poppy”?
Smith offered a point of comparison by mentioning Olivia Rodrigo, who enlisted him for the duet ‘what’s wrong with me’. “It doesn’t compare melodically to the stuff that Olivia does,” he clarified. “It’s more my idea of Cure pop. It’s probably 20 BPM slower than anything she does.”
When will the new album(s) be released?
There haven’t been any clues as to when the band might put out the new albums, but Smith’s statements suggest they will be released separately. Songs of a Lost World, their first LP in 16 years, came out in 2024.
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