McFly are eight tracks into the recording of their forthcoming seventh album.
Less than a year after the band returned with ‘Young Dumb Thrills’, the four-piece is back in the studio working on a new 16-song collection.
Drummer Harry Judd tells The Sun: “We are working on the seventh album. We have 16 songs and have recorded eight so far.
“It’s not classic pop, it is back to more guitar, drums and bass.”
Along with Danny Jones, Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter, Harry has been in the studio writing songs after taking a “different approach” last time round.
He added: “’Young Dumb Thrills’ still had guitars and drums on it but there was programming and a bit of a different approach to recording.
“This time, from day one of writing and recording, we’ve had all our gear set up.
“So if Tom has brought in a song in the morning, we go straight in to playing it as a band to get parts that way. We’ve been writing songs in that environment as well, and writing riffs.”
And fans of the group’s ‘00s heyday will be thrilled to hear McFly are using their fourth LP ‘Radio:Active’ as a reference point for the new material.
“We wanted to approach this from more of a band perspective, how we would have done it ten years ago,” Harry mused.
“We wanted to let our instruments do the talking on this album. Our fourth album ‘Radio:Active’, we wanted to recreate that setting.
“Musically it is not the same as ‘Radio:Active’ but we wanted to create that same feeling of why we love being in a band and playing our instruments together.”
Following the easing of lockdown restrictions, McFly are set to return to the stage with a UK Tour due to kick off September, following a string of Summer festival shows. Tickets are on sale now.
