Earlier this morning, The Cure's frontman Robert Smith stated in an interview on Radio X that the band intends to release a new record "hopefully before next summer," as reported by Consequence.

Imagined as a sequel to Songs Of A Lost World, The Cure's newest record will contain songs originally written for its predecessor that didn't make the cut. "In 2019 we recorded 24 songs for what was going to be a double album, and those eight have come out,” Smith told Radio X, later adding that the sequel piece will have around ten tracks.

Smith also revealed on air what listeners can expect from the upcoming record. "It’s not as dark in some ways, although it actually has probably the saddest song of all of them on it," he said. He elaborated on the track "The Boy I Never Knew," a song originally written in 2004, and how it's "a sad song, but in a completely different way. That’s me singing about a boy that died a million years ago. About the death of humanity before it started," as printed on Far Out Magazine. "It Can Never Be The Same," a track intended for Songs Of A Lost World but later shelved until now, will also touch upon themes of grief, according to Far Out Magazine.

While the 2024 release of Songs Of A Lost World, The Cure's first studio album since 2008's 4:13 Dream, was a surprising, long-awaited return to activity, this new record is only a completion of Robert Smith's original plan. In 2020 Smith told NME that he and the band had recorded enough material to constitute three new albums, one of which would serve as a "companion piece" to the first. Shortly after the release of their 2024 record, Smith elaborated on his vision for the potential third record, a "completely different" piece in the trilogy that would be "really kind of random stuff, like late-night studio stuff," according to NME. Today on Radio X, The Cure's frontman brought up the rumored third album again, as reported by Consequence.

According to Smith, the wait for the second album in the Songs Of A Lost World trilogy shouldn't be too long. He told Radio X that it was "virtually finished," and that "I just have to mix it."