The Cure reckon their next album will likely be their last

Ahead of their upcoming visit to Australia, The Cure have hinted that their upcoming record might indeed be their final one.

For years now, fans of The Cure have lived with the constant fear that any new material from the group might be the last we hear of them.

In fact, 2001’s Greatest Hits compilation was originally slated to bookend the group’s career, closing with new song ‘Cut Here’ which had been intended to serve as the band’s final track.

However, things changed in 2004 with the release of a self-titled album, only to be followed up by 2008’s 4:13 Dream. Since then, fans have gone through the longest gap between studio albums to date, leaving them wondering when and if we might get new material.

While Robert Smith has noted that the group’s “incredibly intense” and “fucking great” new record will be released on Halloween, keyboardist Roger O’Donnell has explained it might be the last album that the group give their fans.

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Speaking to SiriusXM (via NME), Roger O’Donnell explained that after years of worrying about the band’s future, he feels that this record will indeed by the last from The Cure.

“I personally think it will be the last Cure record,” O’Donnell explained. “I know it’s been said a million times before, but at this stage in our lives…”

“It’s epic, I can say that about it,” he added of the new album. “I mean, playing it and sitting there and listening back to it… everybody’s jaws were dropping.”

“I said to Robert a couple of years ago, ‘We have to make one more record, and it has to be the saddest record that’s ever been made and the most dramatic’. And I think it will be.”

Of course, Roger O’Donnell did clarify that this is a feeling he’s had while recording ever album he has appeared on, he notes that the feeling is much more believable this time around.

“As far as I’m concerned, yeah, this is it,” he explained. “But I’ve gone into every album thinking this is it, and not glibly. I actually think this is it.”

In related news, The Cure recently revealed their plans to livestream their fifth and final performance at Sydney’s Vivid LIVE festival this month.

Featuring the group’s 30th anniversary celebration of Disintegration, this livestream will be helmed by British director Nick Wickham, and will be available to view via YouTube and the event’s Facebook page.