The Remedy have teased an upcoming announcement with a cryptic social media publish that has left followers speculating.
On Friday (April 18), the band posted a pair of photographs of an iPod sitting in a recording studio, one displaying ‘CURE MOALW’ on the again of it and the opposite displaying a playlist of tracks involving the band.
Additionally included within the publish is a 14 second video of mysterious, ambient music, whereas the publish is captioned: “IV-XXI-MMXXV”. That seems to reference the date of April 21, 2025, which presumably would be the day the total announcement arrives. It additionally occurs to be the 66th birthday of frontman Robert Smith.
Forward of the affirmation of what the announcement could possibly be, followers have been posting their theories on-line. “04/21/2025 ?!? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN,” reads one reply to the band’s publish on X.
IV-XXI-MMXXV pic.twitter.com/QvfD4lu2rI
— The Remedy (@thecure) April 18, 2025
A lot of the hypothesis revolves across the relevance of the ‘MOALW’ abbreviation on the again of the iPod, with numerous X customers suggesting “Film of a Misplaced World” or “Mixes of a Misplaced World”. These level to a spin-off from The Remedy’s 2024 album ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, their first studio file in 16 years.
“New album!?” reads one other reply to the publish, whereas one other speculates that it’s teasing a brand new tour from the band. See a variety of reactions beneath.
Make Greatness A Misplaced World pic.twitter.com/0MC66JIFk9
— David Gilman (@DavidGilmanTV) April 18, 2025
Mixes Of A Misplaced World, test iPod display screen
— James Mcgowan (@mcgowan_mcgowan) April 18, 2025
Intriguing. Is RS teasing some form of massive announcement on his birthday? The bagatelle picture on the decrease proper is giving me Twilight Zone vibes. It jogs my memory of the basic digital toy “Lite Brite”. I see “moon” spelled out someplace on the multi-colored display screen with random…
— piggywigee (@piggywigee) April 18, 2025
The annoucement of the brand new tour on Robert ‘s birthday?
— Ana (@Annabella5264) April 18, 2025
NEW ALBUM!?
— 🖤🕸️Robin/Elise🕸️🖤 (@ALetterToElisez) April 18, 2025
👀 Film of a Misplaced World???
— GypsyGothStocking (@goth_gypsy) April 18, 2025
The band have spoken about the potential of a brand new album in latest months, telling Radio X that their subsequent physique of labor “has a few songs that we had been enjoying reside which didn’t make it onto ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ and it has some fully new stuff that nobody’s ever heard.“
“There’s three songs on it, that are slower than just about something on this album,” he added. “So I don’t know, it might nicely find yourself being heavier than this one.”
In the identical interview, Smith revealed that he’s “already ending” the band’s subsequent album and teased that it may well doubtlessly obtain a launch as early as this summer season. He additionally added that it contains “the saddest music” of their latest batch.
In addition to the follow-up to ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, he has additionally beforehand stated that there’s a 3rd album on the way in which which is “fully totally different”. Chatting with Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry, Smith defined: “It’s actually sort of random stuff, like late-night studio stuff. However a few of it’s actually good really, it’s simply very very totally different.”
‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ noticed The Remedy land a Quantity One album within the UK for the primary time in 32 years, and it earned a five-star assessment from NME.
It was additionally included in NME’s listing of Greatest Albums Of The 12 months, whereas lead single ‘Alone’ starred in NME’s Greatest Songs Of 2024. “‘Alone’ ended a 16-year drought and proved The Remedy haven’t misplaced any of their magic. By swirling synths and cinematic instrumentation, paired with Robert Smith’s poignant lyricism and melodies, this epic is a masterwork of ethereal magnificence and uncooked emotional depth,” the latter learn. “Certainly one of their most fascinating songs to this point.”
Elsewhere, Smith has been introduced because the curator for the 2026 version of the Teenage Most cancers Belief gig collection, changing The Who’s Roger Daltrey.
