Robert Smith On New The Cure Album: 'It Will Delight Our Hardcore Fans'

Just weeks after confirming The Cure will release their first studio album in over a decade this year, frontman Robert Smith has shared some details about the forthcoming LP. 

Speaking to Rolling Stone in support of the legendary UK band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, the 59-year-old singer revealed that the group recorded the album in the same studio where Queen recorded Bohemian Rhapsody.

"It’s a great studio in the middle of nowhere," he said. 

"We just played music for three weeks. And it’s great. I know everyone says that. But it really is fucking great."

Smith continued, "It’s so dark. It’s incredibly intense. And I’ve waited 10 years to do something that means something. It’s going to work really well. 

"I’m not sure how much of it we’ll play this summer at festivals. It’s not really festival music. The songs are like 10 minutes, 12 minutes long. We recorded 19 songs. So I have no idea what to do now. The others are saying, 'Triple album!' I’m saying, no let’s not.

"I’ll pick six or maybe eight songs and do like a single album. But I think it will delight our hardcore fans. And probably really, really infuriate everyone else. At my age, I’m still doom and gloom."

With the album to be mixed throughout the US summer, Smith said he hopes to release the album in late 2019.

"We’ll finish it before we start in the summer, and it’ll be mixed through the summer. And then so release date, I don’t know, October? Halloween! Come on!"

The Cure will return to Australia in May to headline VIVID Live for the world premiere shows of their Disintegration 30th anniversary tour. 

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