Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has revealed some details regarding the predicted release date of the band’s next album.
Speaking to Triple J, Bellamy said: “I’ve written some good tracks, actually. We haven’t had a chance to rehearse them out yet. We’ll take a break next year for a little few months and then we’ll get in the studio. If it all goes very well, the new album could well be early 2015 or late 2015. Christmas 2014 might be [when we release] our next single.”
While I don’t anticipate that Muse’s next single will be very festive, I hold out a small degree of hope that it’ll be a Christmas themed prog epic, like ‘Knights of Cydonia’ but with more sleigh bells.
Bellamy also discussed how he wants to return to the band’s old sound for their as-yet-untitled upcoming LP, saying: “I’ve got a pretty good picture of what I’d like the next album to be like. It’s the comedown and the sort of waking up the next day being like, ‘What the fuck? What the fuck? That was crazy’…I kind of feel like it will be nice to reconnect and remind ourselves of just the basics of who we are.
“I have this strong feeling that the next album should be something that really does strip away the additional things that we’ve experimented with on the last two albums, which is electronics, symphonics and orchestral work and all that kind of stuff.”
