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As Kings of Leon gear up for the release of new album Mechanical Bull, the band have revealed they wish they had brought out new music sooner.
Their new single 'Supersoaker' was set to broadcast on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show yesterday at 7pm and the band spoke to Lowe to discuss their new band.
Speaking of the process of making a record in the studio for the first time, frontman Caleb Followill said, "It feels like it's a shame that we waited so long to do it. We can go in there and rehearse or goof off."
Bandmate Matthew added, "The pressure was really off of us on this last one. We were our own bosses. There were no bills because we bought the studio ourselves, there was no timeframe when it had to be done by.
"Us being able to take a break, we kind of got to fall back in love with what we loved about it in the first place, which was picking up your instruments and playing and smiling onstage and actually having fun, and not feeling like it's a job."
The band also hinted that they had enough left over material to start work on another LP straight away as there was, "still a lot of material at the studio waiting" and that the "next record's halfway done, almost".
Listen to Kings Of Leon - Supersoaker below:
When asked whether they faced pressure in making the album, Caleb said, "I think the last one took the pressure of us; 'Come Around Sundown' followed-up to what was at the point the biggest record of our career [2008's 'Only By The Night'], so going into this record it was like, 'The monkey's off our back, we don't have that pressure of whether we're going to be able to match what the last record did.' We changed it up a bit on this record."
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