 They initially began recording their second album, "Closer", that same year with former The Smiths producer John Porter at the helm but it wound up being shelved for a little over two decades.The album was posthumously released on 28 April 2014, a year after the death of Gary Biddles.In 1990, Dempsey, Tolhurst and Biddles were recording demos together with a view to forming a new band following Tolhurst's departure from The Cure.