The Treatment returned final 12 months with Songs of a Misplaced World, which marked their first new album in 16 years. However in an interview from final month on John Kennedy’s Radio X present, frontman Robert Smith revealed that their subsequent effort will arrive “hopefully earlier than subsequent summer time.”
Smith advised Kennedy that he’s been exhausting at work ending the brand new album, which encompasses a pair of songs that had been possible supposed for Songs of a Misplaced World however didn’t make the lower. “In 2019 we recorded 24 songs for what was going to be a double album, and people eight have come out,” Smith mentioned, later elaborating that the brand new album will probably be “in all probability 10 songs.”
He continued: “The companion piece to Songs Of A Misplaced World, which will probably be out hopefully earlier than subsequent summer time, is what I’m at present ending. I simply want to combine it. It’s not as darkish in some methods, though it really has in all probability the saddest tune of all of them on it. It has a few songs that we had been enjoying reside which didn’t make it onto Songs Of A Misplaced World and it has some fully new stuff that nobody’s ever heard. However it’s in all probability extra different, I believe.”
Relating to the older tracks that can land on their new album, Smith teased “It Can By no means Be the Identical,” a lower first debuted in 2016 that Smith described as a “tune of grief… a really, very previous tune which we’ve been enjoying for a protracted, very long time.” He additionally teased “A Boy I By no means Knew,” which was written for The Treatment’s 2004 self-titled effort. “I believe that may in all probability make it on [the new album],” Smith mentioned, “That’s a tragic tune, however in a very completely different means. That’s me singing a few boy that died 1,000,000 years in the past. Concerning the dying of humanity earlier than it began, I believe… or one thing.”
Imagine it or not, Smith additionally teased a third album within the works for The Treatment. “Having completed this one (Songs of a Misplaced World), the second is just about completed as nicely,” he mentioned. “The third one is a little more tough as a result of, nicely if we get that far… Speaking concerning the third album, you see what I imply? I simply can’t assist myself.” It’s not the primary time he’s referenced a 3rd new Treatment album, telling Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry final 12 months that whereas the follow-up to Songs of a Misplaced World is extra of a “companion piece” to the album, the third report is “fully completely different.” “It’s actually sort of random stuff, like late-night studio stuff,” Smith mentioned, “However a few of it’s actually good really, it’s simply very very completely different.”
Basically, Robert Smith and The Treatment have discovered themselves in one other prolific interval late of their profession, and hopefully Smith’s summer time benchmark finally ends up being actual. For now, revisit Songs of a Misplaced World, which landed on our record of the 50 finest albums of 2024.