311 is getting ready to release a new album next month and are talking details about the new direction they took.
According to Billboard.com, 311 is gearing up for the release of their new album coming out July 19th and are ditching the ballads and concentrating more on music that is best heard live. Find out what where they’re heading and more below.
When asked about the decision frontman Nick Hexum explains, "Over the past few years we’ve realized we’re primarily a live band and we’re damn glad for that. So we felt the album should support the live setting. It’s nice to have a single (‘Sunset in July’) that goes on the radio, but that’s all kind of gravy. The core of what we do is touring and the live experience, so this album was created to support that. What’s going to be fun to play live, and what’s exciting? What you hear is a band in the studio, playing, and the album is mixed very naturally instead of going for more compression and everything."
Their new album, Universal Pulse, is more of "a concept album about space travel" where Hexum said he isn’t sure "if the rest of the guys really got into it." Hexum and his producer, Bob Rock (from 2009′s Uplifter), went through 50 demos before coming up with 8 that made it onto the album. Although the amount of songs is more of an EP than album, Nick acknowledges that the group is happy with its decision to keep it that way.
311 kicks off their Unity Tour with Sublime With Rome July 6 in Wichita, Kansas. You can catch them in Florida August 4-6 at the first ever Pow Wow Festival at the Spirit of Suwanne Music Park in Live Oak. The show will also feature deftones, G. Love, The Dirty Heads, Reel Big Fish, Ozomatli,Streetlight Manifesto, Mix Master Mike and more.
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