New York quintet Brand New have set And One Head Can Never Die as the title of their fourth studio album.
Speaking exclusively to Kerrang!, frontman Jesse Lacey has concerns that their follow-up to 2006’s The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me may be too “exhausting” for their fans to truly take in.
“I’m a little worried about it,” says Lacey. “It’s a pretty exhausting record. It’s quite dense, and I think some of the decisions we made don’t always go in the most obvious direction – sometimes we’d do something in a minor key where you’d expect something bigger or have feedback instead of something that might be more pleasing to the ear. We were thinking a lot more about what we’d want to play when we were up onstage rather than actually what you’d want to hear on a record. If you play it loud and you make it through six or seven songs you’re gonna be pretty tired.
“I suppose I’m worried because I have odd reservations about albums in general these days,” he adds. “It’s hard expecting someone to listen to a record the whole way through, and I think the third quarter of some records often gets lost, particularly if the record requires you to put some work in. I’d almost like to release it like an old school vinyl album, have two number ones through six. But this is the record we wanted to make, and we’re all of an age where we need to sustain ourselves as much as we feed the audience.”
And One Head Can Never Die will be released on September 21 through Universal. The band will play the Reading and Leeds festival in August.
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