Alkaline Trio plans to get back to its roots for the follow-up release to 2008's "Agony & Irony," singer-guitarist Matt Skiba tells Billboard.com.
"We kind of want to make a punk rock record," Skiba says. "That's how we started as a band, and over the years I think we evolved into kind of more of a rock band with punk roots. So we have a bunch of new songs, and we've been kind of picking a couple of new songs each night. But we're using our soundcheck as kind of our pre-production for the record.
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We've been writing when we had downtime but now that we're out, the three of us have been vibing off each other and inspired to write. So we're just cranking out new songs. We'll pick out the 10 best and go record them lickety-split in July and release it thereafter."
The band is now road testing new D.I.Y.-sounding songs such as "Dine, Dine My Darling," "Dead On The Floor" and "This Addiction" on its current tour. Something else exciting for the threesome is releasing its next album on its own new record label.
"With the way that everything is being done, with people like Trent Reznor and Radiohead, it was very inspiring to us that when you're doing things on your own you can do whatever you want," Skiba says. "Not that we're going to give records away but this time we're starting a label, we want to build it up first and have the freedom to release exclusive things whenever we want. That's something we've always been able to do until we were on Epic, so it's nice that we're able to do that again."
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