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TITLE Unconfirmed LABEL Unconfirmed RELEASEDATE 2021 Expect“heavyanddark” moodsonthemuch-anticipated comebackfromRobertSmith’s bandofbrothers REEVES GABRELS, GUITAR: We started the record in January 2019 in Wales – we went in for about two 50•UNCUT•FEBRUARY2021
months. We’d all been writing before that. So we got together and listened to it all, learned it, went in the studio and recorded it. There’s enough material for two or three records, a lot of stuff. So one of the problems, when you’ve got enough for two records, is deciding which songs to bring to completion. Right now I’m not 100 per cent sure where we’re at. Are we at a record and a half? Are we two records finished? I always feel as though The Cure is Robert’s to talk about, so I’ll defer to him on that. But he did say the
record was finished at one point and we all kind of went, “What?” It’s a heavy and dark record as well. I don’t think there are any short songs on there. The description of Lou Reed’s Berlin when it came out was that it was the “Sgt Pepper of depression” – I don’t know if we’re that psychedelic, but we are that depressed. It was a tough couple of years for everybody. A by-product of getting older is that people around you keep dying. We all lost relatives. Robert lost his brother, I lost a stepdad and
father-in-law – while we were on the road, too, which meant there was more strain. Not that we have to go and put on a happy face when we play. The playing in fact was more like a salvation, that was our point of solace. All that fed into what we ended up doing. We’ve been having a great time playing as a band. We’re enjoying each other’s company. We didn’t have time to finish the vocal tracks [in 2019], and this year was going to be required to look at everything we did in 2019. We had
