The Cure celebrates 13th birthday with double album

The Cure recently spoke to Billboard about their upcoming thirteenth year together and they detailed plans to celebrate the ominous anniversary. Mastermind Robert Smith noted:

Rather than cut it down, at the stage we're at with the band, I'm making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result. It isn't a commercial concern for me.

What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me. A single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing. There's a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I've agreed to sell the double version at a single album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays. I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections, but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns."

Songs will include "Lusting Here in Your Mind" ("It sounds suspiciously like heavy rock to me," Smith says), "The Hungry Ghost," "The Perfect Boy," "Christmas Without You" ("That's not a very happy song," he says) and "Please Come Home."

Smith promises the Cure will play new material during its fall North American tour, but not too much.

The band released The Cure in 2004.