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It's been a minute -- make that nearly four and a half years -- between albums for Massachusetts punk rockers Four Year Strong. But the group promises that it was time well spent in preparation for the new"It has been a long time coming," co-frontman Dan O'Connor tells Billboard."We did a bunch of touring and stuff for and then did a lot of conceptualizing about what we wanted to do for the next one.
"So for we just wanted to start writing and write as many songs as possible without having an end date in mind. We would know when the record was done. So that's what we did this time." The exercise resulted in nearly 50 songs for the album, out Feb. 28, with plenty of trial and error to arrive at the 12 tracks Four Year Strong recorded with co-producer Will Putney."It was pretty awesome," O'Connor affirms."We were able to explore all kinds of different areas musically and go down some of these weird avenues and just explore and see what happens. We were able to write some weird songs and then say, 'OK, those were weird, let's get on to the next song.
Day adds that,"All of us thought, 'Wow, this is exactly what we were picturing for this' -- and rarely does that happen. We're always happy with what we get out of the studio, but this time we had the time of focus on what we wanted." Co-directed by the band and Miguel Barbosa, the comically violent"Get Out of My Head" and its colorfulvibe"came together really fast," according to O'Connor.
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