Tears For Fears co-founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith are not only talking again for the first time in years -they're writing together again with an eye toward possibly making a new TFF album.

"We had dinner when I went back to England in January," says Smith. "We hadn't spoken in early a
decade. [Producer] Chris Hughes is the one person that both of us still talk to [from the TFF days], and he said, 'Why don't we all go out to dinner?' So we went out, and it was kind of cool. We started talking about music, and it was clear that we had some of the same ideas again and that we had a lot in common musically."

The pair has been writing trans-Atlantically, says Smith, who adds that it is too early to predict where the process will lead them. "Until we know if we like what we're doing, we don't really know what's going to come of it," he says. But he adds that the twosome plans to demo some of the material in England. "If we decided to go further with this, we would record as Tears For Fears," says Smith, "but we're being very laid-back, which is a good thing; we're not being precious about it."

In the meantime, Smith says he's still pursuing his solo career under his name (he reviously had recorded as "Mayfield"). An EP of his new solo material will come out in August, followed by a full-length album early next year. The projects will be released through his own label, Zero Disc, which goes through Proper Distribution.