The long wait appears to be over: The Cure may have confirmed the release date of their first LP in 16 years in a postcard sent to fans.
Earlier this week, speculation grew that an announcement was coming when the team updated their social media profile pictures.
Now fans of the band have received cryptic postcards in the mail that appear to confirm the album title (Songs of a Lost World) and release date. The Latin numbers that translate to November 1, 2024, are embossed on the bottom of the cards. See the posts below.
The Cure released their latest album, 4:13 Dreamin 2008, which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200. The postcards come amid a flurry of activity for the band. Last month, the band released a special double vinyl A-side featuring live versions of two new songs, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” recorded in 2022 at Shows of a lost world tour and released through Naked Vinyl, a record label focused on sustainable vinyl. Proceeds from the sale will go to the climate charity Percentage of Landwhich was founded by Brian Eno.
The LP has long been discussed by Robert Smith in interviews. Speaking to festival“>Los Angeles Times in 2019, he blamed himself for some of the delays. “I keep going back and doing them again, which is stupid. At some point I have to say this is it. It's very much on the darker side of the spectrum,” Smith added. “I lost my mother, my father and my brother recently, and obviously that had an effect on me. It's not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like Decompositionassume. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound.”
Elsewhere, Cure member Roger O'Donnell recently announced that he had been “diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma” in 2023, but had since recovered.
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