The Cure  Three Imaginary Boys, the debut album from the Cure,
turns 35 this year, so it’s pretty goddam impressive that the
band is still around and still doing band things. One of those
things is a new album. The sessions that produced the last Cure
album, 2008′s 4:13 Dream, also yielded enough material for
another album. And this year, the band will release them as an
album, and they’ve tentatively given it the title 4:14 Scream.
(Don’t worry; there’s no release date announced yet, so they
still have plenty of time to change their minds on that title.)
The band seems to realize that 4:14 Dream, or whatever they
might end up calling it, will not end up as one of their
classics, since they’re already making plans to play their
actual classic music on tour. Three years ago, the Cure embarked
on a short Trilogy tour, where they played their first three
albums (Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, Faith) in full
every night. (There was also an earlier tour where they did
Pornography, Disintegration, and Bl