That's actually what they're saying. I shit you not.
Richard Hughes, the band's drummer, says that they'll start recording a new album after Christmas. Exactly what the record's going to sound like, well, I'll just let him explain:
We've said in the past that we don't want to just churn out records that are the same.
We're going to try and do something different with the next one. There's a lot of interesting stuff coming out of America that's... I mean, I've been listening to people like Dr. Dre for a long time, I think 2001's a ridiculously amazing record and its probably the most played thing on my iPod. I love the sparseness of that, and the last record was really dense, it was full of stuff.
So maybe we'll try something that's as empty as possible. There's certainly elements of that that you could experiment with. You could try and be more minimal in your approach with instruments and try to get a bit more funk in there. We'll see! Or it might just be a rock album - you know, I don't know. But yeah, we're going to try and do something different.
Something tells me the record is going to sound a little more like this:
And not so much like this:
