Smith revealed that he is “already finishing” the band’s next album and teased that it can potentially receive a release as early as next summer. Kennedy asked Smith about the ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ tracklist, questioning: “There’s only eight songs on the album, but you alluded to the fact that there are another 32 songs that you recorded in 2019, was it?”
“Over the period prior to 2019 as well,” Smith responded, adding: “In 2019 we recorded 24 songs for what was going to be a double album, and those eight have come out.”
After discussing the massive amount of tracks that have been created, Kennedy asked: “And so that means there’s a lot more to come. Is that right?,” to which Smith responded: “There are another two – two eight track albums if we wanted. But I think that the next one will be probably 10 songs.
“I’m finishing the next one. I just can’t decide on the running order. It’s always which ones fit together best. We always had about 14 songs, 15 songs left over from the ‘4:13 Dream’ sessions as well. So, there’s an awful lot of stuff that’s unreleased and I never thought I’d bother kind of revisiting it. But actually with the way this album has been received, I think maybe it’s the right time for me just to go back over stuff and get it out there. Like, finish singing stuff and finish mixing it.”
The singer continued: “The companion piece to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, which will be out hopefully before next summer, is what I’m currently finishing. I just need to mix it. It’s not as dark in some ways, although it actually has probably the saddest song of all of them on it. It has a couple of songs that we were playing live which didn’t make it onto ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ and it has some completely new stuff that no one’s ever heard. But it’s probably more varied, I think.”
Another album??