My Chemical Romance's New Album To Be Released in Late '09

The_Cool_Cow · Feb 5, 2009

In a recent interview with BBC, Gerard Way shed some light on My Chemical Romance's new album:

My Chemical Romance will return to the studio this week to begin work on their as yet untitled fourth album. After a gruelling schedule, 2008 saw the band take a break. In the most part Gerard Way used the opportunity to complete the second series of his comic [The Umbrella Academy] while guitarist Frank Lero recorded with side-project Leathermouth.

The Black Parade saw the New Jersey fivesome decked out in military garb and experiment with a widescreen punk sound. "We haven't chosen a path yet," concedes Way of the new material already penned. "It's all over the map in terms of what's there." "It's going to be less layered than Black Parade - I do expect it to be a little more raw. "

Unlike its predecessor the band's next record - expected in late 2009 - will be put together in deliberately urgent fashion. "I'm hoping for something to happen in a very fast way, that feels very natural and that doesn't have a lot of noodling all over it. That's the goal, to get in there and have this rapid and visceral recording experience. To tour on it almost right away on it would be fun and not kind of drag it out like last time. This time there won't be any procrastinating."

"I'm not the same person to when I made the first record, second or Black Parade," he emphasises. "Black Parade was three years ago. You change a lot in three years. If I try to write more music like that I'd be doing people a disservice. There may be some people that's just what they want but I don't think our fans do. We have to make a record that reflects how we've matured." As far as the group is concerned change isn't an option then, but a necessity. "If we keep making a copy of the same record it's going to be no good for anybody. We have to change. You hope that they [the fans] come along with you but they may not and you have to take the chance."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7865000/7865678.stm

I'm cautiously optimistic about this. I have a strange love/hate relationship with MCR, and i'm not sure which side the new album will fall on. The Black Parade will always have a special place with me, because it has sentimental value attached to it for me, but listening to it from a purely objective standpoint, i've found that i've sort of grown out of it. If the band can mature somewhat, then this could be awesome, but we'll have to see.

Shadester · Feb 5, 2009

TBP was great at first, their best record, but I feel the same way as you; it really doesn't do much for me bar a few tracks. The part about a late '09 release was pretty much known but it's great to have it confirmed, I guess.

If this new raw sound is anything like Desolation Row, I'll like it.

The_Cool_Cow · Feb 5, 2009

I'm actually hoping for something slightly Smashing Pumpkins-esque. Slightly theatrical, but very raw and intense and rocking. Considering that the band is very influenced by SP, it's not too much of a stretch, I think.

Astat · Feb 5, 2009

"Frank Lero" ? Nice one BBC.

Daniel · Feb 5, 2009

Sweet. Definitely looking forward to this.

Friskey™ · Feb 27, 2009

Source is MTV.com.

There was a time, long before the multiplatinum records and the pancake makeup, before the Eisner Award-winning comics or the Dylan cover in the "Watchmen" film, when My Chemical Romance were just another band from New Jersey. They would like very much to get back to that time.

So that's goal number one with their new album — the follow-up to the massively successful, massively ambitious Welcome to the Black Parade — which they're currently writing in Los Angeles. They hope to get back to their roots — to make manic, fast-and-furious, spur-of-the-moment punk. And, above all, to keep it simple.

"When we had just finished Black Parade, I think doing that record made us feel like we could do everything. And so I think the way to top a record that already kind of does everything is to not do everything," MCR frontman Gerard Way smiled. "I don't think this is gonna be a 'kitchen sink' record. I think it's going to get by on its musicianship and its own merits in the songs.

"And every record ... I like to think they're snapshots of what your band is at that moment, and this is really going to be that. I think there's going to be lack of concept, I think it's simply a snapshot, I think it's going to be direct and very honest," he continued. "It's not going to be hiding behind a veil of fiction or uniforms and makeup anymore. ... From the stuff we've been playing so far, just feels very pure. That's the best way to describe it. People who were really big fans of our first record, they'll find things they're really going to love about the new material — and not because we sound like that first record at all, it's because there's a purity to it. There's less happening."

It's a tactic they first learned while recording their version of Dylan's "Desolation Row" for Zack Snyder's upcoming "Watchmen" film: Stop thinking and just get busy rocking.

"From working on 'Desolation Row' ... I think it was very natural. We just kind of did stuff and the song was there. There was no over-thinking," Way explained. "[But, having said that] we're not going to make a retro record at all. It will sound like a modern rock record, but I think we would like to try to redefine that, what that actually means. By saying it sounds like a modern rock record, it'll sound new — I don't think it'll sound like what's on the radio right now."

And to that point, though it may sound like MCR are trying hard to strip away the rather, uh, grandiose leanings of The Black Parade, they've still got the swagger of a band that's moved units and toured the globe. They've been surveying the musical landscape that's appeared in their absence, and they're not very pleased by what they see. Take, for example, the (working) title of one of their new songs: "New Hair, Same Shit."

"It's about having new hair, but it's the same shit. That's the concept," Way laughed.
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I think it's really cool that they're stripping down for this album. It really shows, not only in the cover of "Desolation Row" (which BTW, has entered my playlist. It's not a bad song), but the video as well. They've gone away from all of the costumes and stuff and while it was cool to do that, now it's time to step away from that and it sounds like they're going to make a "kick to the teeth, fuck you" album, which by MCR's standards, should be fantastic. I personally can't wait.

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