It’s been a minute since we heard from Birds of Tokyo. The Perth outfit’s last release was a best-of compilation unveiled last year and before that their last album was 2013’s highly successful March Fires.
Well, fans will be glad to know the boys have been hard at work on a follow-up to the album that yielded mammoth singles like ‘This Fire’ and ‘Lanterns’. In fact, they want to know what you think of the idea.
“Hey Guys,” the band recently took to Facebook to write, “Genuine Friday arvo question: How would you all feel if we made what is likely to be the heaviest album of our career thus far?”
Apparently, Birds of Tokyo have been busy writing and clocking hours in the rehearsal room and they’ve come up with something that might sound more akin to frontman Ian Kenny’s other project, prog-metal outfit Karnivool.
After asking fans how they’d feel if the band recorded the heaviest album of their career, the band later replied to one enthusiastic commenter, “Too late, we’ve already done it. Haha ask questions later they say.”
“Radio isn’t going to play this,” the band promise, before comparing the sound of the new album to an amped-up version of 2008’s Universes. “Think it’s gonna be Universes on steroids,” they write.
“We just kinda tired of everyone making ‘chill’ music,” the ‘Plans’ hit-makers write elsewhere, adding “snooooooze”. In terms of influences, the band explained to one curious commenter that they’re “channeling lots of NIN”.
“The record is written and we know it’s been a while but we are getting through it,” they add. “We absolutely promise this will be like nothing you’ve heard before from us….in the most epic of ways! yeeewwww.”
Hey Guys, Genuine Friday arvo question: How would you all feel if we made what is likely to be the heaviest album of our career thus far?
Posted by Birds of Tokyo onThursday, February 4, 2016
