New Cure Album, Any Details?

THE CURE will release their new album in June.

The currently untitled album has been scheduled for release on June 21. The album will be the band's first since the release of 2000's 'Bloodflowers'.

As previously reported on NME.COM, the band are working with At The Drive-In and Korn producer Ross Robinson.

The album will come out on Robinson's own I Am label.

The band will play at the Move (July 9) and Oxegen (July 10/11) festivals this summer.

The Cure - The Cure

Billboard report that Robert Smith has announced that the forthcoming The Cure album will be self titled. The Billboard writer also describes some of the tracks and an initial tracklist is provided.

Provisional Tracklist: The Cure - The Cure

Lost
Labyrinths (working title)
Before 3 (working title)
Truth Goodness and Beauty
The End of the World
I Don't Know What's Going On
Taking Off
Anniversary
This Morning
Us or Them
Precious Advise (working title)
Jason #3 (working title)
The Promise
Going Nowhere

Metallica might argue that position.

...What?

I hope so! The chorus could be "Nothing? Nothing, tra-la-la?!"

'The End' In Sight For The Cure

The Cure's first album in four years will be a self-titled affair, frontman Robert Smith announced last night (April 28) in New York at the first playback of the upcoming release. "The Cure" will arrive June 29 on producer Ross Robinson's I Am imprint via Geffen. The group will perform first single "The End of the World" tomorrow on NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and headline the Coachella festival on Sunday in Indio, Calif.

"I think it's the best thing we've ever done," Smith said proudly. "The album is called 'The Cure.' If you don't like it, then you don't like us." Smith stood silently in the corner of the room by himself while the 14-track album was played for about 40 journalists and guests, occasionally taking notes in preparation for approving the final mix and running order.

The album kicks off with the slow, discordant "Lost," featuring the first of many impassioned vocal performances from Smith. A throbbing bass groove powers the tentatively titled "Labyrinths," with Smith wailing, "It's not the same / it never was like this / everything has to change."

The classic Cure sound is evident on such tracks as "Before 3," "Taking Off" and "I Don't Know What's Going On," which sport great melodies and foot-tapping tempos. The 12th track, the tentatively titled "Jason #3" provides the album with a late shot of energy thanks to a clever, melodically ascending chorus.

But the album has its share of dark and intense material, particularly the epic penultimate track "The Promise," which runs past 10 minutes and climaxes in feedback and noise. "Us or Them" matches its confrontational title with an emphatic chorus ("I don't want you anywhere near me"), while "Going Nowhere" wraps things up with sad, dreamy production accented by piano.

"There was a moment where we had to decide whether to do some conceptual experiment with nothing over 100 [beats-per-minute], and all of us with our heads down making a heavy, heavy album, but it wouldn't be as good," Smith said. "The best Cure albums have a balance."

Smith revealed that former guitarist Porl Thompson, who left the Cure in 1993, recorded parts for a couple of tracks. At Robinson's urging, basic tracks were recorded live, yet another throwback to an earlier time.

"Ross wanted to record us as a band, which we really hadn't done since the second album we ever made," Smith said. "The days would build up into these intense periods until we'd get the song. Everything was played live and I had to sing live."

The covers very good, the single's not (unless its a grower)

this is the album that should of come out after WISH (my two cents)

i think the thing i haven't liked about the later cure albums is that they sound over-produced/too self-conscious.

= OTM. BF had some good tunes but the sound always struck me as too warm and fuzzy, everything pro-tooled to a comfortable swoosh. Wild Mood Swings could have been something interesting if they had really gone the Top/Head on the Doord route but a lot of the songs were probably too weak and the 'deep' one sounded contrived and, yes, self-conscious.
What I've heard of the new one so far sounds really promising. They seem to have avoided the temptation of corny melancholic self-parody.