This week, Alison Mosshart spoke to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat about both the upcoming sophomore record for The Dead Weather as well as the next album for The Kills.
Alison and Jamie are currently working on the followup to Midnight Boom, and she reflected on the pair’s odd method of working.
“[We have a] strange method working because there are only two of us and I’m not a very good guitar player so it’s a lot of work for him [Hince]. We always take a while to do things. There are only two of us and we have such a strange method of working. I write really fast, I write like five songs a day and I’m like ‘Jamie, listen to these’ and he’s like, ‘Four of them are really bad and one of them is amazing’. Certainly he’s got a lot more to do – we can’t kind of sit in a room and jam like a traditional four piece band.”
The band commenced work on their forthcoming fourth album after completing a stateside tour with The Horrors in May. Mosshart spent much of the summer touring and recording with her other band, Jack White’s The Dead Weather, before uniting with her writing partner.
“I came back and spent all September here in London and we worked for a month straight and we actually got somewhere quite solid,” she explains. “We don’t really have drums for everything and that kind of changes everything – it turns a song that’s on an acoustic guitar into something quite intense. It’s like walking a tight-rope when you add a drum beat. Everything is at those beginning stages when we have songs, we have structure and we have melodies but its not been electrified.”
A title or date for the album has yet to be confirmed. She also spoke about the upcoming LP from The Dead Weather and claimed that it is “halfway done”:
“In between now and Christmas I’m going to go back to Nashville [White's home] at some point. I think I’ll spend most of December in America and finish the second record. So there will be more. It’s a kind of endless train of things which keep coming up. So I suppose next year is going to look a lot like this year. We kind of wrote 15 songs in three days. We had three days off at one point which we didn’t expect. They [the songs] sound great. I really like them. We’ve been playing three or four of them on stage so they keep changing all the time. The boys are extremely quick but the four that we do have I’m sure are on YouTube. I’m sure they’re everywhere.”
Commenting on the prolific speed at which the foursome write she said:
“I love it. I don’t think we could do this if the four of us in a room didn’t move so fast because the four of us have other stuff going on. It’s all really spur of the moment.”
She also took time to praise the skills of The White Stripes man, who also stars and directed the video for new single I Cut Like A Buffalo.
“He’s [Jack White] a man with a billion ideas every single day. He works really hard and rarely sleeps. It’d be great if there was a day with 48 hours instead of 24 for him I’m sure. It’s pretty incredible to be around.”
Source: BBC Newsbeat 16/10/09 and 19/10/09
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