The Drums Get to Work on Second Album

Posted on Aug 20th 2010 12:15PM by Andrew Kerr
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With their record label making enquires regarding new material, the Drums have made a tentative start to the process of writing the follow-up to their eponymous debut -- only months on since its release.

But fans shouldn't expect any dramatic deviations from the music that's helped them become one of the bands of the festival season. Speaking to Clashmusic, drummer Connor Hanwick said, "We don't want to do a whole lot of change."

He continued, "What's exciting us is songs, not stylistic stuff. Stylistically and sonically and production-wise, the album will sound pretty similar to this one, just with new songs. If something new comes along and we think it feels good we'll go with it. We're not gonna shun anything new just because it's new, but at the same time we're firm believers in if it's not broke don't fix it."

It's something of a miracle that the New Yorkers have had any time to think about recording another album -- a busy schedule has made for an hectic year, something the band have had to learn to live with.

Frontman Jonathan Pierce explained, "To us, all we know is what we're doing -- we don't compare ourselves to other bands because we don't know what other bands are doing – we don't know how hard anyone is really working, but when we hear the same thing from every rep in every different territory, then we start thinking like, 'Are we working too hard? Is this too crazy? Is someone pulling the wool over our eyes and telling us this is normal?'"

He added, "It's been a pretty intense year, but we're just so grateful."