Futureheads finishing up new album

According to a report from NME.com, where news writers spend every waking minute of every day combing every known musical site to unearth every tiny tidbit (seriously, it's insane), The Futureheads are three weeks from finishing the follow-up to their 2006 release, News and Tributes. From the official Futureblog:

"We started the year writing and rehearsing for the third album, and, after playing some of our best shows in Austria, Italy, Russia, Germany, and Sweden we jetted off to Granada in Spain to make the new record... I'm pleased to say it's pretty much finished!

We spent three weeks (yes, just THREE WEEKS - record time for the Futuremen!) in Andalusia with Youth making the as-yet-untitled (of course!) third album! It was our best recording experience yet because it was the first one that hasn't involved any kind of nervous breakdown/exhaustion/bleak-Yorkshire-farmhouse-in-the-middle-of-winter! The energy is back, and the songs are tighter, faster and, dare I say it, a bit more playful than before."

The record, which has no label just yet, is expected sometime in 2008. Meanwhile, the band has a few scattered DJ set dates in various European cities in September and October.

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