The group previewed new songs on their recent stint through the USA in January, now in an interview with Spin the group have unveiled some facts about the anticipated album and its sound: "Our intention was to make a hard record. Something very heavy...it’s like a beast, this record."
The group are at the mid-stages of recording and have been holed up at London's RAK studios for a few weeks, but started writing in 'a very posh area' of London, in the same neighbourhood as Robert Plant in fact. Lead singer Jehnny Beth explained: "It had this background that was glamorous and romantic. It was refreshing." The studio has since closed due to rising rent. "It’s really sad, the place where we wrote things, where we’ve been creative, it’s just going to be a posh flat...That’s the situation, the context, of the record."
Listen to fan-captured footage of new song 'Adore' below:
The band's leader also hinted at a release date which will be 'sometime later this year or very early next year.' Beth went on to say, "It’s unclear what will make it onto the record. When we finished touring, there were a series of different things we wanted to try. I knew I wanted to have different intentions behind it. After touring for two years meeting different people, you compile things. I wanted to use different kinds of positive words and negative words about how power interacts, sexual connotations as well, and abstract things."
The forthcoming record will follow 2013's Silence Yourself which was critically acclaimed and received a Mercury Prize nomination.
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