| The
2012 New Album Chronicle
the story of the making of the 2012 Gaslight
Anthem album as told in interviews, tweets, photographs, etc.
compiled by Alexander for The Gaslight
Anthem Record [updated 18 February
2012]
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news
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Once upon a time in 2010 ...
16 November 2010
Before a gig at Rock City in Nottingham,
UK, Brian is reported to have said that they were hoping to record the
next Gaslight Anthem album in February 2012.
27 November 2010
Brian tells Kerrang! (#1340):
"I've started writing songs for the next Gaslight record. I have an idea
for it, which I think is great. Some people will like it, some won't, and
that's fine. This time I just don't care."
5 December 2010
Brian writes on his blog: "When
we start writing our new record, which should be around the 1st of the
year or so, I'm thinking of really taking Dire Straits and the blues much
more seriously."
20 January 2011
Brian writes on his blog: "Gaslight
isn't planning on recording until the fall, for a 2012 release".
27 January 2011
Brian tells AMP: "Gaslight
is full on writing new material, we have a couple tours booked, but most
of this year is going to be writing and hopefully recording at the end
of the year. It's a pretty big record for us, and we gotta make it count.
I think we're leaning on making a record that's just full of excitement
and that romantic feeling we avoided on our last record. I just want to
go out there and blast out fun rock and roll again."
10 February 2011
Benny writes on his blog: "Gaslight
is practicing and getting ready for the Australia and Japan tours. We've
also had a couple of Spiro Agnew practices the last few weeks. Both bands
have new songs."
27 February 2011
The band play a new song, 'Biloxi
Parish', live at the Soundwave festival in Sydney. You can hear it
on YouTube.
As Benny explains on his blog for Rocksound.tv (28/02/2011): "We
played a little tighter, had a great crowd again, and even played a new
song, 'Biloxi Parish'. Always curious at how people dig new tunes, and
it went over great, I'm happy."
4 March 2011
Brian tells triple j: "[After
Japan] we're gonna go home and write some new songs. We played a
new song in Sydney. […] On all the Australian dates we are going to play
a new song, so today you're going to hear a new song […] and that's going
to be on the new record."
13 May 2011
Brians writes on his blog that while
recording the Horrible Crowes album, he played an "old Hammond B-3, which
is an amazing instrument, and I've found myself pretty attached to it,
which I'm sure will end up on the next Gaslight record".
26 May 2011
Brians tells Spin magazine
that the band's next record will be closer to The '59 Sound. "It's
all about knowing your audience," says Fallon. "When I buy a record by
a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you
change your band name?'"
6 June 2011
Brian talks to Rocksound
about the next album:
RS: What is the relationship between
your new project and Gaslight?
"With Gaslight I always want to
figure out the best thing for it rather than go and mess around with the
band, put out a weird record and make everybody nuts. The Horrible Crowes
is an experiment and I don't want to experiment with Gaslight, it has a
preciousness that I don't want to ruin, if want to try something weird
that might get me to a new place I need to go do that on the side, and
that's what I did. In fact, I'm getting ready to write the new Gaslight
Anthem record now."
RS: When does writing start?
"It already has! This new record
is coming quicker than people expect, I think we'll have a new album out
before Summer next year, we're ready to go on it!"
RS: What do you want to talk about
on the new songs?
"I think the album is going to be
a lot about coming home. I'm back on the shore and I moved six or seven
blocks from where I grew up, that has plugged me back into all that stuff."
6/7 June 2011
Brian tells fans outside a gig in
Hamburg that the next album should be out in May 2012.
8 July 2011
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Thank
you Barcelona! Last show of the American Slang tour! We'll see everybody
next year with a new record, off to the writing!"
17 July 2011
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "At work
on new songs!"
25 July 2011
Brian talk to New York magazine
about the Horrible Crowes, Ian Perkins, and the Gaslight Anthem:
NY: Ian Perkins was your guitar tech
for Gaslight. Had you ever written with him before?
"No, this was it. He had played
with us in Gaslight a couple times, just live. He would kind of goof around
really, and then it started sounding good and it wasn't funny anymore.
We found out how good he was and it was like, 'Well, somebody’s got to
use him … I'll take him!' And then he snuck his way into playing more.
We've written more songs for Gaslight Anthem now - we just started writing
two weeks ago and there’s four songs - and he's shown up on every one of
them. So I don't know what's going on with him."
NY: And Gaslight is also working
on a follow-up to American Slang. How's it shaping up?
"A little bit of a return to our
older stuff, like The '59 Sound and a little bit of the Senor
and the Queen, that EP we put out. The '59 Sound is one of those
things I'm always chasing to make something as good as [again]. I'm also
chasing to leave it alone because it’s perfect the way it is."
NY: Do you have a release date in
mind?
"We're planning on recording in
the winter, in the dirty, dirty winter months, so I'd like to say that
May, summer would be a good time."
4 August 2011
Benny writes on his blog: "Gaslight
is continually hanging and writing songs. The group of them we have going
right now are a cool step for us and making us even more excited to keep
writing more. Next record is gonna be a trip."
13 September 2011
Brian tells Billboard.com:
"We're making demos and our goal is 25 of them, and we've got 10. The songs
that are fast, they're a lot faster. It's definitely pretty personal and
pretty aggressive right now. I'm really happy with it so far."
19 September 2011
Brian writes on his blog: "Lord
willing, I'll be writing songs on the Revival Tour and we should start
getting together and rehearsing and making demos when I get back.
[...] I know one thing, we're looking into how to carry on our sound, how
to stay exciting, how to improve, how not to loose the intensity because
we're older. I feel like we have more to prove now than when we first put
out Sink or Swim. We've been given a gift, now we have to deserve it."
September/October 2011
On stage during the Revival Tour,
Brian tells the audience that the Gaslight Anthem are aiming to write about
40 songs for the new album and aim to record over a dozen.
6 October 2011
On their website, the Gaslight Anthem
confirm that they have signed with Mercury/Island Def Jam Records and also
write: "We're hard at work writing songs now for what we feel is going
to be the best record we've ever made!"
4 December 2011
Dyingscene.com reports that during
a solo show in Boston, Brian told the audience that he had only three songs
left to write for the upcoming Gaslight Anthem album and that the album
was due out in July 2012.
5 December 2011
Brian tweets: "Hey, we didn't finish
writing our new album, we're 'almost finished' writing our new album, it's
kinda like how we're 'almost famous.' "
9 December 2011
Benny writes on his blog: "In music
news: Gaslight has been getting together quite often and working on the
new record. We're in a great flow right now and I'm getting more and more
excited with each song we finish. I'd say we're close to 3/4 through with
the meat of the record, and tons more ideas are kicking around. Can't wait
to leave town and lay this thing down..."
January 2012
Brian talks to Classic Rock
magazine (#Feb) about work on the new album: "There's a lot of panic, normally
about whether a record is good enough. But with this on, you can't screw
it up. The song's we've written, you don't need tricks or magic or violins;
we don't need any sweetener, because it's so good and so raw. It doesn't
sound old, and it has nothing about the past. Bands sign to major labels
and take it down a peg, but this has more energy than the last two. The
guys actually asked me the other day: 'Are you gonna write any slow songs?'"
Brian is is said to have characterised
the song '45' as "a burner of a song" and as stating that 'Mae' is "cinematic
- it kinda moves like a movie. It's stuff I've learnt from the Horrible
Crowes, but we put down the jazz instruments and picked up the rock'n'roll
ones."
According to Classic Rock,
the album is still untitled and is pencilled in to be released in the autumn.
13 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Heading
to record in Nashville next week!"
January 2012
Brian via Instagram: "Last practice
before recording."
17 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Going
tomorrow to start recording the new record!!! I hope you guys like the
new DJ we added!"
18 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Half
way to Nashville. Driving our old tour van, Bob Gnarly. Five guys and a
dog."
19 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "All
set up at the studio... Rock starts tomorrow!"
19 January 2012
Benny via Instagram: "View from
the champagne room while the boys look at guitars ... There isn't really
champagne, but plenty of coffee ... Nashville, 12.19.2012."
20 January 2012
Brian via Instagram:
24 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Pre
Production done - tomorrow we press record!"
24 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Day
two! Sounding insane - unbelievable!"
25 January 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "This
is my favorite songs we've ever recorded. Feels like we found our own sound!"
1 February 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Absolutely
working at peak here in Nashville! Just wrote another new one! So inspired!"
10 February
2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Everyday
getting closer!"
10 February 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "In the
studio, robbing Nashville of all vintage guitars, making rock and roll...
#itsgoodtobealive"
12 February 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "We don't
have a release date, but my fingers are crossed for a summer release. #c'mondoit"
13 February 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Thanks
to Austin and Alyse from Rolling Stone for coming down to the studio today!"
13 February 2012
Brian tweets: "Studio Updates on
Instagram @brianfallon"
16 February 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Very
nearly done... What's left? Two vocals, and one acoustic song. That's it!
Then mixing, then done!"
18 February 2012
The Gaslight Anthem tweet: "Every
song done! Now recording b sides and covers!!!! #thisisarockandrollalbum"
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