The Cure to release two brand new songs as live recordings double A-side for climate charity
The Cure have announced the release of two brand new songs as live recordings that will be a double A-side for climate charity âEarth Percentâ. Find details on how to get âAnd Nothing Is Foreverâ and âI Can Never Say Goodbyeâ below.
READ MORE: On the cover â Robert Smith on 40 years of The CureReleased via Naked Record Club – a record label that releases limited edition records on sustainable vinyl â âThe Cure – Novembre: Live in France 2022â is a double A-Side 12â Eco-Vinyl single featuring two live tracks that were recorded during the French leg of the band’s âShows Of A Lost Worldâ tour.
The first song, âAnd Nothing Is Foreverâ was recorded live in Montpellier at the Sud de France Arena on November 8 2022, while âI Can Never Say Goodbyeâ was recorded live in Toulouse, Zénith, on November 13 2022. These are the first new tracks from The Cure in 16 years.
Records 1-100 will be signed by Robert Smith and will be available via The Cureâs website, while 101-5000 will be available exclusively from Naked Record Club Store here.
The Cure and Naked Record Club will be donating 100 per cent net profits from sales of this record to the climate charity Earth Percent, which was founded by Brian Eno.
Eno said of the release: âI’d like to thank The Cure and NAKED Record Club – both true innovators – for their generous support of vital climate projects through the release of ‘The Cure – Novembre: Live In France 2022.’ It’s a powerful example of how the music community can work together to build a better world.â
Naked Record Club co-founder, Simon Parker, added: âWhen I bought âThe Head on the Doorâ back in 1985, the teenage version of myself was shown a different way to live my life. My love of The Cure gave me the confidence to quit my dreary hometown in search of a band hellbent on indie-rock glories of their own, and one way or another I have worked in music ever since.
“So, when Robert Smith told me he wanted to work with NAKED Record Club on an eco-release for Earth Percent to raise climate change awareness in the music industry, I was astonished, excited and dumbstruck in equal measures.
âTo make matters even more surreal, I was at the Montpellier show where one side of this exclusive 12â single was recorded. So thatâs me clapping and shouting in the run out of âAnd Nothing Is Foreverâ!â
Previously, Parker said told Record Collector magazine that it would be his dream to work with The Cure on a release.
“We’d give away our body parts to release anything by The Cure. They have been my favourite band since 1985’s ‘The Head On The Door’. Rachel [Lowe – co-founder] and I saw them live in Montpellier last year and are convinced that Robert Smith has his own concerns about climate change. Maybe there’s still time to do an eco-press of their much delayed ‘Songs Of A Lost World,'” he added, referring to the title of The Cure’s next album.
Back in 2022, Smith revealed the album title of The Cure’s next album in an interview with NME.Â
The band have long teased the bandâs much anticipated âmercilessâ new record and previously told us that two new albums were on the way back at the NME Awards back in 2020. Smith revealed in 2022 that one of them would arrive âvery soonâ.
âSo Iâve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,â Smith told NME.âUnfortunately, itâs the second one thatâs finished. [On the other] Iâve got to do four vocals, and there are 10 songs on each album. Weâre mixing next month on April 1, so Iâve got three weeks left.â
He continued: âI know what itâs called â itâs called âSongs Of A Lost Worldâ. Itâs got artwork, itâs got a running order, itâs almost done!” he said at the time.
Discussing the themes and character of the long-awaited follow-up to 2008âs â4:13 Dreamâ, Smith said that the album âdoesnât have very much light on itâ and that it sounds âmore like âDisintegrationâ than âHead On The Doorâ.â
âItâs pretty relentless, which will appeal to the hardcore of our audience, but I donât think weâll be getting any Number One singles off it or anything like that!” he told NME, explaining that it was informed by lockdown. “Itâs been quite harrowing, like it has for everyone else.”
He continued: âIâve been more privileged than most, but lockdown and COVID has affected me in as much as Iâve lost an entire generation of aunts and uncles in under a year. Itâs things like that which have informed the way Iâve been with the record.
â…Essentially we recorded two albums in 2019. Iâve been trying to finish two at the same time, which is pretty much impossible. One is nearly ready to go.â
Smith also discussed how losing his mother, father and brother inspired the âdarknessâ of The Cureâs new album and his âexperience of lifeâs darker sideâ.
âWeâre going back in [the studio] three days after we get back from Pasadena for me to try and finish the vocals, which is, as ever, whatâs holding up the album,â Smith told The Los Angeles Times. âI keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say thatâs it.
He continued: âItâs very much on the darker side of the spectrum. I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me. Itâs not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like âDisintegrationâ, I suppose. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound.â
Smith added: âThe working title was âLive From the Moonâ, because I was enthralled by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing in the summer. We had a big moon hanging in the studio and lunar-related stuff lying around. Iâve always been a stargazer.â
The Cureâs Roger OâDonnell has also described the album as the band’s âmost intense, saddest and most emotional recordâ to date.
Talking to Classic Pop magazine, OâDonnell said: âFour years ago, I said to Robert, âWe have to make one more record…it has to be the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record weâve ever made, and then we can just walk away from it.â He agreed. Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.â
He continued: âThe problem is, itâs 12 years since the last album so it becomes precious. When youâve got a back catalogue like The Cure, itâs a lot to live up to. Robert has said, âif The Cure say any more, it had better be important and it had better be fucking goodâ.
âIt is, itâs going to be an amazing record. I just suggest a little patience.â
Back in 2022, The Cure kicked off their 2022 world tour in Latvia tonight, debuting two new songs and welcoming guitarist and keyboardist Perry Bamonte back to the band. At this, the band debuted two new songs, ‘Alone’ and ‘Endsong’.
Other new songs followed on the tour including ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye‘, ‘Another Happy Birthday‘ and ‘A Fragile Thing‘.
On the sound of the new songs live, NME wrote in a four-star review: “The ticking clock piano rhythms and rolling bass of âA Fragile Thingâ accompany the promise that thereâs ânothing you can do to change the endâ, while âEndsongâ is a stunning, sprawling soundscape to portray Smith utterly lost in a universe where thereâs âNothing left of all I lovedâ.
“The truly devastating heart of the new material previewed comes with âI Can Never Say Goodbyeâ â where howling guitars match the singerâs fear of âshadows growing closer nowâ as âsomething wicked this way comes, to steal away my brotherâs lifeâ. You feel that these songs are for those who mean the world to him.”
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The Cure to release two brand new songs as live recordings double A-side for climate charity
The Cure to release two brand new songs as live recordings double A-side for climate charity
The Cure to release two brand new songs as live recordings double A-side for climate charity
The Cure to release two brand new songs as live recordings double A-side for climate charity
The Cure to release two brand new songs as live recordings double A-side for climate charity
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