The long wait appears to be over: The Cure may have confirmed the release date of their first LP in 16 years in postcards sent to fans.
Earlier this week, speculation mounted that an announcement was incoming when the group updated 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. Roman numerals which translate to Nov. 1, 2024, are embossed at the bottom on the cards. See the posts below.
The Cure released their most recent album, 4:13 Dream, in 2008, which landed at No. 16 on the Billboard 200. The postcards come amidst a flurry of activity for the band. Last month, the band released a special double A-side vinyl featuring live versions of two new songs, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” recorded in 2022 on their Shows Of A Lost World tour and released via Naked Vinyl, a record label that focuses on sustainable vinyl. The proceeds from the release will go towards the climate action charity Earth Percent, which was founded by Brian Eno.
The LP has been long discussed by Robert Smith in interviews. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in 2019, he blamed himself for some of the delays. “I keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say that’s it. It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum,” Smith added. “I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me. It’s not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like Disintegration, I suppose. 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.
