Spring '08 LPs From Madonna, Coldplay, The Roots, Mudcrutch, Elvis Costello

The Cure

Title TBD 6/3

With thirty-three songs recorded for the Cure's thirteenth album, the band is still figuring out which tracks to submit to the label. "There's some very, very downbeat seven-minute songs and some very upbeat ones," singer Robert Smith says. "One voice is saying, 'Put out the most commercial-sounding CD and draw people into the Cure world again.' There's another voice saying, 'Fuck that, let's just put out the doom and gloom.'" At least one tune will almost definitely make the cut: "Sleep When I'm Dead," a recently unearthed demo from 1985's The Head on the Door. "It sounds genuinely 1980s," Smith says. "I don't think that's a bad thing. It's part of our heritage."