Je n'ai pas trouvé de date annoncée, par contre une interview intéressante sur ragmagazine.com (il faut aller dans les archives 2007, lien direct vers le PDF à télécharger ici)
Mars ça date un peu j'espère que ça n'est pas trop obsolète.

Quelques morceaux choisis :
"It is a lot harder for me to focus this album, or has been, because of the return of Porl on guitar. He’s contributing such a different kind of musicality to the group. And because we are all putting songs in the pot and saying, you know, “What does this sound like?” We’re trying lots of different things. We’ve actually got such a breadth of different stuff. I mean, stylistically it’s kind of reminiscent of the Kiss Me album, because there are so many different things going on.
At one point, I was thinking maybe [this could be] a double album with some instrumentals, and being really, really artsy. But after I talked it through with the rest of the band, and primarily the record company (laughs), they weren’t very thrilled about a double album. [The label] think[s] it’s conceptually sound, but in
the current climate, probably not commercially viable. So, I’m thinking we’ll probably do the album in two stages. We’ll have one [released], which is, in and of itself, a thing. Then we’ll probably have like another kind of album, which will be a download album, and will complement the main album. That’s my thinking at the moment."

Bonne nouvelle :
"We have got a keyboard in the studio, but it’s been used very, very sparingly. There are little touches of piano, and little bits of noise here and there. But generally, it’s just a four-piece band.
It’s bass, two guitars and drums."

Autre bonne nouvelle :
"Do you think people have this misconception that you are sad and gloomy all the time because some of your songs are melancholy?
Um, I think there was a misconception for a long time. I don’t think it’s probably as bad now because when we’re (pauses) – that’s a tricky one.(laughs) The Cure still makes some pretty dark music. I mean there are songs on this [next] album, which are among the darkest that we’ve ever done. They reflect a part of my character that’s still there, that will never go away. I still am subject to incredible bouts of depression, I suppose. But it’s in the same way as pretty much everyone I know who thinks about what’s going on, is subject to those kind of dark thoughts and dark moments."