
In 2019, fans of The Cure got their first serious indication that the group would soon be releasing some new music. In July 2019, Robert Smith revealed to NME that his band was hard at work on a new album that would be "a little bit more doom and gloom" than their previous releases — talk about setting the bar really high. He was also quite confident that The Cure would have the new record out in stores before the end of the year, stressing that he would be "extremely bitter" if they missed their target release date. Spoiler alert: They missed it.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced a lot of bands to go on hiatus in 2020, Smith doubled down on his previous teases in September of that year, telling BBC 6 Music that he had been quite productive due to all the time spent at home in quarantine and that one upcoming track would be "10 minutes of intense doom and gloom." Earlier in 2020, Smith also told NME that The Cure was working on "two new albums and an hour of noise."
Earlier this month, Smith told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 (via Stereogum) that one of the new Cure albums will be more cheerful than the dark and gloomy release he had been teasing for the past two years. More importantly, fans might not have to wait much longer before they finally get released. "They're both very close to being done," Smith said. "I just have to decide who's going to mix them. That's really all I've got left to do."
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