Followers are speculating after The Treatment tease new announcement
The Treatment 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 pictures of an iPod sitting in a recording studio, one exhibiting ‘CURE MOALW’ on the again of it and the opposite exhibiting 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 complete announcement arrives. It additionally occurs to be the 66th birthday of frontman Robert Smith.
Forward of the affirmation of what the announcement may very well 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 Treatment (@thecure) April 18, 2025
A lot of the hypothesis revolves across the relevance of the ‘MOALW’ abbreviation on the again of the iPod, with varied X customers suggesting “Film of a Misplaced World” or “Mixes of a Misplaced World”. These level to a spin-off from The Treatment’s 2024 album ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, their first studio report 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 spread of reactions beneath.
Make Greatness A Misplaced World pic.twitter.com/0MC66JIFk9
— David Gilman (@DavidGilmanTV) April 18, 2025
Mixes Of A Misplaced World, examine iPod display
— James Mcgowan (@mcgowan_mcgowan) April 18, 2025
Intriguing. Is RS teasing some kind of huge announcement on his birthday? The bagatelle picture on the decrease proper is giving me Twilight Zone vibes. It jogs my memory of the traditional digital toy “Lite Brite”. I see “moon” spelled out someplace on the multi-colored display 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 opportunity 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 utterly 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 effectively 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 could possibly doubtlessly obtain a launch as early as this summer season. He additionally added that it consists of “the saddest track” 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 best way which is “utterly totally different”. Chatting with Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry, Smith defined: “It’s actually type 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 Treatment 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 Finest Albums Of The 12 months, whereas lead single ‘Alone’ starred in NME’s Finest Songs Of 2024. “‘Alone’ ended a 16-year drought and proved The Treatment haven’t misplaced any of their magic. Via 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. “One in all their most fascinating songs so far.”
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.