From NME:
Robert Smith on why he dislikes The Cure’s ‘4:13 Dream’: “It was nowhere near what I wanted it to be”
By Liberty Dunworth
Robert Smith has opened up about his relationship with The Cure‘s ‘4:13 Dream’, saying that he isn’t a fan of how it turned out.
The frontman looked back at the 2008 record during a new interview with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, in which he celebrated the release of the band’s latest LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.
Reflecting on his relationship with ‘4:13 Dream’ nearly 16 years on, Smith revealed that the finished product didn’t match the initial vision he had, partly because he wanted it to be much longer.
“If I’m really honest I was trying to make an album in 2008 which was a double album and it was really odd,” he began. “It had all kinds of stuff on it, instrumental stuff – and I was pressured into reducing it all down into a single album… I have never felt happy about it. “
He continued, suggesting that he has been tempted to resume work on the album to help finally capture the vision he initially had “I bristle a little bit about it. At some point, before I fall over, I’m determined…” he said.
“There are 13 songs from those sessions that never got released. It was a double album and the whole idea of ‘4:13 Dream’ was that it was like a fever dream. As it turned out, it wasn’t. It was nowhere near what I wanted it to be.
“I learnt a lesson [from that], and maybe that’s why we didn’t make another album for such a long time! I hated the idea of delivering it to the deadline. It was my own fault. I should’ve just ignored everyone. I was so sickened by the process of [being] commodified, and it really did upset me a lot.”
