Hosted by Apple Music’s 1 interview with Zane Lowe, legendary Cure frontman Robert Smith has talked further about his future projects, including a release of a “noise album”. The singer also spoke about The Cure’s long-awaited two new albums, claiming that he did not want one of the two releases to be “one hour’s worth of noise” as the first band’s release in over a decade, so it will be a solo release. However, the Cure’s two new bodies of work are “both very close to being done”.
“I’ve always wanted to do an hour’s worth of noise, and I didn’t want it… The Cure, you wait ten years and then we bring out an album that’s just noise. So it was just like, “No” – that was me doing the rest of the band. That “no” was a band no. So I’ve been just having fun with that really,” Smith explained.
The Cure singer said he will have more updates soon: “Probably in about six weeks’ time I’ll be able to say when everything’s coming out and what we’re doing next year and everything … We were doing two albums and one of them’s very, very doom and gloom and the other one isn’t. And they’re both very close to being done. I just have to decide who’s going to mix them. That’s really all I’ve got left to do”.
The interview also featured the indie-pop band CHVRCHES from Glasgow, since they teamed up with Smith to release the single “How Not to Drown”, ahead of the band’s new album ‘Screen Violence‘. Along with his collaboration with CHVRCHES, the author of the hit “Friday I’m in Love” also teamed up with Gorillaz for their new track “Strange Timez” as well as Deftones for a remix of their own song “Teenager”.
