The Cure's Robert Smith teases companion piece to Songs Of A Lost World

Detailing the process of writing the album's lead single, "Alone", Robert Smith revealed that he had been sitting on the song from almost a decade. "A lot of the big songs were written in response to things that happened to me. The ones that have really stuck with me, they were actually musical responses – I tend to respond to traumatic events by writing music rather than writing words. And so ‘Alone’ was one of those songs. I kind of fell when I wrote it, it was a special song," he explained.

He went on to explain that, because he "wasn't trying to right a new album", whilst coming up with the demos, he was able to come back to the songs after a few years, and still feel like they had something special about them. "I ended up with about 30, 35, 36 demos that we worked on in the studio," he continued. "We ended up recording about 25 in total, I think... there's 32 unreleased songs at the moment sitting in my house.”

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Smith also revealed that there were plans to release a double album, due to the plethora of songs that he has written over the past few years. He is currently finishing the next album – a companion piece of Songs Of A Lost World, which will "be out hopefully before next summer" – but is struggling to decide on the running order.

"It's not as dark in some ways, although it actually has probably the saddest song of all of them on it. It has a couple of songs that we were playing live which didn't make it onto Songs Of A Lost World and it has some completely new stuff that no one's ever heard. But it’s probably more varied, I think," he shares.