Robert Smith reveals his “least favorite album” by The Remedy

Robert Smith has opened up about The Remedy’s discography, and revealed which of the albums is his “least favorite”.

The frontman’s reflection on the band’s catalogue comes as they’re gearing as much as share long-awaited new album ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’.

Set for launch on November 1 (pre-order right here), the document will mark the primary from The Remedy since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’, and it has already been previewed by two singles: ‘Alone’ and ‘A Fragile Factor’.

Forward of the album arriving, Smith took half in a brand new interview,  posted on the band’s new web site over the weekend, and opened as much as BBC Radio DJ Matt Everitt about which one tune from every of The Remedy’s albums he thought would match with the brand new launch.

In addition to revealing which songs he’s most pleased with – notably the title observe from the ‘Religion’ album, ‘Disintegration’’s ‘Untitled’ and ‘Want’’s ‘To Want Inconceivable Issues’ – Smith additionally went on to recall which launch he doesn’t look again on so fondly.

Naming ‘Earlier than Three’ as his favorite tune from 2004’s self-titled document, he recalled how he isn’t a fan of the album as a complete.

“’The Remedy’ album might be my least favorite album that we’ve made,” he stated. “I don’t like a few of it, it’s the one album that I don’t assume works. ‘Earlier than Three’ is an efficient tune, that will in all probability work.”

Elsewhere within the interview, he additionally defined that he had the same outlook on the tune ‘The Final Day Of Summer season’, taken from ‘Bloodflowers’, however finally modified his opinion. “That’s turn into a favorite. I used to be by no means fairly certain about it as a tune, however I believe it’s a good tune,” he recalled.

Different tracks listed as aligning with the sound of ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ included the title observe from ‘Three Imaginary Boys’, in addition to ‘Seventeen Seconds’ observe ‘At Night time’. Discover the total listing beneath.

The songs chosen by Robert Smith in the course of the interview had been:

‘Three Imaginary Boys’ (from ‘Three Imaginary Boys’)
‘At Night time’ (from ‘Seventeen Seconds’)
‘Religion’ (from ‘Religion’)
‘Chilly’ (from ‘Pornography’)
‘The High’ (from ‘The High’)
‘Sinking’ (from ‘The Head on the Door’)
‘If Solely Tonight We May Sleep’ (from ‘Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me’)
‘Untitled’ (‘Disintegration’)
‘To Want Inconceivable Issues’ (from ‘Want’)
‘Treasure’ (from ‘Wild Temper Swings’)
‘Final Day of Summer season’ (from ‘Bloodflowers’)
‘Earlier than Three’ (from ‘The Remedy’)
‘The Hungry Ghost’ (from ‘4:13 Dream’)

In a five-star evaluate of ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, NME wrote: “Cruel? Sure, however there’s all the time sufficient coronary heart within the darkness and opulence within the sound to carry you and place these songs alongside The Remedy’s most interesting.

“The frontman advised that one other two data could also be arriving sooner or later, however ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ feels adequate sufficient for the wait we’ve endured, only for being arguably probably the most private album of Smith’s profession. Mortality might loom, however there’s color within the black and flowers on the grave.”

Elsewhere within the prolonged interview with Everitt, Smith additionally revealed that the band have one other new album within the works which is “nearly completed”, in addition to a 3rd document within the pipeline too. He then stunned followers by sharing his plans for a world tour in 2025, in addition to talking in regards to the band’s upcoming fiftieth anniversary.

In addition to that, Smith stated he thought the group would half methods after their headline efficiency at Hyde Park in 2018, and known as dynamic ticket pricing a “rip-off” that’s “pushed by greed”.

One of many extra poignant sections of the interview got here because the frontman defined the profound coincidence and dying behind the quilt art work for ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’. This coincided with the singer opening up about how he penned the observe ‘I Can By no means Say Goodbye’ about his brother’s passing.

What’s extra, he additionally make clear his relationship with soccer, revealing that having a curry with the late England and Queens Park Rangers ahead Stan Bowles was “the spotlight of [his] life”.

The Remedy are set to play a particular intimate present on the BBC Radio Theatre in London on October 30 forward of one other small gig on the Troxy within the capital on November 1. Followers will be capable of watch the latter date through a free international livestream.