Ed Kowalczyk on new stuff Options

[SecretInsomnia]

Today in the Dutch edition of the newspaper 'Metro' there was an article on the premiere of the Live DVD in Amsterdam, yesterday.

The article end with:

"...Live will play seven times in Holland for the Night of the Proms. Frontman Ed Kowalczyk said that the band is busy working on new material, dat will sound more solid/strong than their recent stuff."

whoohooe sounds like they broke with the SFBM-style for good

Also Chad T wrote, after mentioning the 2 new songs, 'there is more to come' on his blog, very recently.

Full article: http://rapidshare.com/files/160346799/livemetropdf.pdf.html

(but it is in Dutch, and the rest of the text says nothing new)

[SecretInsomnia]

well... Dangum's post in the other thread confirmed this again:

Ed says they're going back into the studio in the Spring. Purifier and Forever is the direction they're going.

so... I guess at the end of 2009 we can expect new songs. Or maybe earlier... remember that only 2 weeks after Forever was recorded, we were able to hear it!!!

What do you all think of this step the band takes? I didn't hear Purifier yet, but everyone seems to like it and says it rocks and is one of the best since TDTH. So...
Imagine a full album (although it can turn out as a EP as well) with songs like Forever and Purifier. I think that would work perfect. It would be good commercially, but will also fucking please all the fans! A good combination, if you ask me. At the other hand, if half of the songs on the new album is gonna be like Forever, half of all songs will contain no guitar...
But I really hope the 2 new songs is an indication they are gonna work together again.

[+Ed+]

Does not let me dload it.

[Nobody Knows]

Yesterday Ed was at Dutch Radio at 3FM the Coen and Sander show.

You can here it here: http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/radi.../dinsdag-16.wma

First they played Forever and after that they spoke with Ed, the interview start at 39 mins.

He says pretty much the same, that Purifier and Forever is the direction they are going.

[Merica]

He says pretty much the same, that Purifier and Forever is the direction they are going.

If Purifier and Forever are the benchmark for the next album...it's setting up to be a decent record.

[turkish101]

Well... I remain cautiously optimistic. Birds of Pray was a 'harder/heavier' album, but that didn't mean it was great.

I do like Forever and Purifier though.... sounds good!

Could someone clarify something, though, please.... I read somewhere on these boards that Radiant Sea and Beautiful Invisible were both outtakes from V... is this true? I personally hate those songs (and the rapping in RS would seem to make more sense), but the album states they're "two new songs." God, I hope these are old rarities and not their newer stuff...

[dangum]

Could someone clarify something, though, please.... I read somewhere on these boards that Radiant Sea and Beautiful Invisible were both outtakes from V... is this true? ..

Somebody over at the SOY boards spoke to one of the band members and they confirmed that the 2 tracks on Radiant Sea were both originally recorded for V.

[turkish101]

Somebody over at the SOY boards spoke to one of the band members and they confirmed that the 2 tracks on Radiant Sea were both originally recorded for V.

Thanks for clarifying. Good to hear. If Ed is going to drop names like Diesel Jeans, let it be done in 2001.

[jaybb]

Thanks for clarifying. Good to hear. If Ed is going to drop names like Diesel Jeans, let it be done in 2001.

Haha. Perhaps there should be a revised version with more up to date brand names? "She is just a godess in a pair of True Religion jeans..."

[+Ed+]

Nah. Let it be Motor Jeans