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Rock band Ash have promised that their new album will be more stripped down than their last release, and share similarities with their earlier work.
The group are currently in a New York studio recording the follow-up to 2004's hugely successful Meltdown, but have revealed that the new songs are very different.
Bassist Mark Hamilton told Kerrang!: “With Meltdown, we made a really super-slick, ultra-polished, highly-produced album and we wanted to do something different from that.”
Eschewing high-tech production techniques, the band have ambitious aims. “We’re going to try and record 90 per cent of the album live," Hamilton remarked.
Earlier in the year guitarist Charlotte Hatherley left the group, resulting in a more "stripped down" sound for the remaining three-piece.
“One song, 'Suicide Girls', has got a big pop chorus and is more like classic early Ash. It’s really exciting," he added.
The group are currently in a New York studio recording the follow-up to 2004's hugely successful Meltdown, but have revealed that the new songs are very different.
Bassist Mark Hamilton told Kerrang!: “With Meltdown, we made a really super-slick, ultra-polished, highly-produced album and we wanted to do something different from that.”
Eschewing high-tech production techniques, the band have ambitious aims. “We’re going to try and record 90 per cent of the album live," Hamilton remarked.
Earlier in the year guitarist Charlotte Hatherley left the group, resulting in a more "stripped down" sound for the remaining three-piece.
“One song, 'Suicide Girls', has got a big pop chorus and is more like classic early Ash. It’s really exciting," he added.
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