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Frontman Van McCann has said the band are hoping to have the 3rd album finished by the end of the year

In an interview with BBC Newsbeat Van McCann has said that the third album has been written and if recording goes well he hopes it will be ready by the start of 2018.

Although the indie band still feel relatively fresh it has almost been 4 years since they burst on to the scene with their debut album ‘The Balcony’ in 2014. They released their second album ‘The Ride’ around a year and half after.





Speaking to Newsbeat McCann said: “The end of the year is when we’re supposed to start recording but I think we’ll be done by then,” he told the outlet.

I don’t know when we’ll be allowed but we’re ready to go, I’ve got the songs. We’d release an album every six months if we could but you’ve got to take them around the world and stick to the schedule.”

News of a third album from the Welsh stars will spark excitement amongst their, loyal and now massive, fanbase.

Their second album, however, was branded ‘unadventurous’ by certain critics although it was almost unanimously accepted that the tracks on he record were still ‘crowd-pleasing’. With moments of brilliance yes, like the powerful lyrics in ‘Twice’ when McCann scream ‘Christ’ down the mic, many of the songs just seemed to tell the same stories as the first album. On ‘Soundcheck’ he is trying to catch a girl on her fag break and in ‘Glasgow’ he sings about a girl who makes him do he ‘that shit that I never do’ with seven McCann pointing out that he ‘needs another year alone’.





Despite some of these issues, it is impossible to deny that the band have something authentic and cutting edge, a virtue that a lot of rock and indie music has been lacking over the past decade. They have already been likened to Oasis and The Arctic Monkeys and although musically different, with another few years of selling albums and stadiums it is hard not to put them in that bracket.

Personally, I hope they can evolve slightly and vary the tone and sound of their new album. If they accomplish this they will create a buzz not dissimilar from the time of their debut album release, a buzz which not many bands or artists ever experience.

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