The Treatment‘s Robert Smith has revealed that the band have one other new album within the works that’s “just about completed”, with one other within the pipeline.
The alt-rock icons are set to launch their long-awaited fourth album ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World‘ – their first since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘ – on November 1. Again in 2020, Smith instructed NME that the band had been onerous at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.
Now, in a full interview recorded for followers in dialog with Matt Everitt that’s as a consequence of be shared in full later right now (Sunday October 13), Smith has revealed how ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ got here to be, and particulars of leftover materials on the way in which.
Smith spoke of how the band initially meant to launch a file to have a good time their fortieth anniversary.
“I felt that we needs to be summing up,” mentioned Smith. “I believed, ‘The fortieth anniversary of the band occurs in 2018, and the fortieth anniversary of the primary album [‘Three Imaginary Boys’] was is 2019, so we’ll do one thing that sums up what the band is and the place we received to. It was a grand plan – and grand plans typically don’t work very effectively, in my expertise!”
He continued: “It wasn’t actually being finished for the correct causes. It was a bit ‘triumphal’, I suppose, trying again. The tone of it was improper. Because it turned out, what occurred in 2018 was a good way to mark the anniversary of the band. It allowed me the time to assume, ‘Why would we make a brand new album?’
“What occurred in 2019 was far more pure and every little thing advanced out of that. There was now not this concept that we had been ‘celebrating’ one thing or marking one thing – it was changing into one thing far more creative to trustworthy, slightly than one thing that was a part of this complete thought of, ‘Right here’s The Treatment after 40 years – be amazed!’”
Talking of the wealth of fabric – together with fan favorite ‘One other Glad Birthday’ aired by the band on tour final yr, however not featured on ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World – Smith make clear the wealth of songs that they’d been engaged on.
“For the oldest music on this album, the demo was finished in 2010,” he defined. “They stretched all through. The majority of them, most likely 5 of them, have been written since 2017. Three of them: one in every of them was 2010, one was 2011, one other was 2013 or 2014. There have been so many songs to select from.
“That is leaping about, however we recorded about 25 or 26 songs in 2019. We recorded three albums in 2019; that’s at all times been the issue. I’ve tried to get three albums accomplished. After ready this lengthy, I used to be like, ‘Let’s simply throw out Treatment albums each few months!’ All the things with hindsight, you assume, ‘Actually? I might have finished that lots higher’.”
Smith added: “It’ll work out this time. Having completed this one, the second is just about completed as effectively. The third one is a little more tough as a result of, effectively if we get that far… Speaking in regards to the third album, you see what I imply? I simply can’t assist myself.”
This comes after Smith additionally just lately defined the lengthy anticipate ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World‘ and meanings behind latest singles ‘Alone‘ and ‘A Fragile Factor‘, in addition to explaining how he meant for The Treatment to come back to an finish at one level in 2018, and revealing how he thought dynamic ticket pricing was “a rip-off” and “pushed by greed“.
In a five-star evaluation of ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, NME concluded: “Cruel? Sure, however there’s at all times sufficient coronary heart within the darkness and opulence within the sound to carry you and place these songs alongside The Treatment’s best. The frontman recommended that one other two information could also be arriving in some unspecified time in the future, however ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ feels ample sufficient for the wait we’ve endured, only for being arguably probably the most private album of Smith’s profession. Mortality could loom, however there’s color within the black and flowers on the grave.”
The Treatment are set to play two London exhibits – one for BBC Radio 2 on October 30 and one other intimate album launch present at Troxy on November 1.
