The band's 14th studio album was released last Friday (November 1) The Cure ‘s Robert Smith has revealed that his wife Mary Poole Smith helped him finalise the tracklisting for ‘ Songs Of A Lost World ’. READ MORE: The Cure – ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ review: a masterful reflection on loss The band’s 14th studio album was released last Friday (November 1), during a week which saw them play two shows at the iconic BBC Radio Theatre before performing their new record in full at London Troxy’s venue the same day their album was released . Back in 2019, the frontman said the new LP had been shaped by his “experience of life’s darker side” following the deaths of his mother, father and brother.
Now, speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music’s Huw Stephens , Smith opened up about how his wife helped him to put the record together. He said: “I was finishing the doom and gloom ones..
. and [Mary] said no, no, no your best albums are the ones that just have a couple of..
. more upbeat tracks. She was right.
I wanted to finish everything, because I thought that’s only fair to all the songs, like they’re all little children – I don’t want to pick favourites.” The Cure’s Robert Smith, 2024 CREDIT: Sam Rockman. His comments come after he previously said that the band have another new album in the works that’s “virtually finished”, with a third record in the pipeline too .
Back in 2020, Smith told NME that the band were hard at work on “two new albums and an h.