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Story: Jack Foley
THE Cure, one of the most influential bands of the past two decades,
will release their brand new studio album through I Am / Geffen
Records on June 28.
The new self-titled disc, already described by Rolling Stone
as being the band’s best work since 1989’s Disintegration,
was recorded at London's Olympic Studios with Ross Robinson (Korn,
Limp Bizkit, At The Drive In) producing.
The album, which is The Cure’s first album of new music
since 2000’s Bloodflowers, will be released on
Ross Robinson’s imprint, I Am Records, through Geffen Records.
Perennially popular with fans all around the world, The Cure
recently drew big crowds in the US when they headlined the second
day of the Coachella festival, in California, where they showcased
several new tracks, including forthcoming single The End Of
The World.
Their only confirmed UK live date thus far is the Move festival
at Manchester’s Trafford Cricket Ground, on July 9, but
other live dates include several European festivals and The Curiosa
Festival 2004, a very special string of US dates.
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The Curiosa bill will include The
Cure, Interpol, the Rapture and Mogwai and a second stage will
be showcasing the talent of Muse, Thursday, Auf Der Maur and Cooper
Temple Clause amongst others.
Led as always by singer/guitarist Robert Smith, The Cure line-up
since 1994 comprises long-time bass player Simon Gallup, guitarist
Perry Bamonte, drummer/percussionist Jason Cooper, and keyboardist
Roger O'Donnell.
The band is currently enjoying a huge resurgence of interest.
Earlier this year, Fiction Records released a four CD 70-song
boxed set, ‘Join the Dots: B-sides & Rarities 1978-
2001’.
Among a number of genre-spanning collaborations undertaken in
the past few months, Smith has sung on the track All Of This,
from the new Blink 182 album, and the dance smash, Da Hype,
with Junior Jack.
A generation of new bands such as Interpol, The Rapture and Hot
Hot Heat have been outspoken in their admiration for The Cure,
and, last year, Q Magazine awarded the band a lifetime achievement
award.
The Cure first formed in 1976 as Easy Cure. In 1978, the 'Easy'
was dropped, and The Cure were signed to the Fiction label.
In May 1979, their debut albumThree Imaginary Boys was
released to great acclaim.
Other landmark Cure albums include Pornography (1982),
The Head on the Door (1985), Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss
Me (1987), Disintegration (1989), Wish
(1992), Wild Mood Swings (1996) and the Grammy-nominated
Bloodflowers (2000). |
