Green Day hint at 'power-pop' album

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong has suggested that his band's new album may have a "power-pop" sound.

Armstrong, whose group is recording the follow-up to 2004's American Idiot with Butch Vig, said that he is trying to become a "progressive" songwriter.

He told Altpress: "I really like f***ing with arrangements. I always try to look at the possibilities of how you write power-pop music.

"How do you take something - and it could be anything from The Creation and The Who to The Beatles to Cheap Trick to The Jam - and try to expand on the idea of what is supposed to be three-chord mayhem?

"How do you do it in a way where the arrangements are just unpredictable? So I'm pushing myself to be progressive in songwriting and being a songwriter."

Speaking about Vig's input on the record, he added: "[Butch] gets psyched on a f***ing microphone! That's inspiring. That's amazing.

"He's not a cheerleader type of producer; he's just a very hard-working, straightforward guy."