Oh great. More minimal techno pop.

 

If anything they'll go down the more reggae-pop route of Major Lazer, something like Keep it Goin' Louder.

Well as long as it's nothing like as awful as Run The World (or Pon De Floor for that matter - shoot me!) then I won't worry too much. Still I doubt it'll sound very 'No Doubt'.

OMG would love to see No Doubt get more dancey -- Stefani has such a great voice for that!

Well as long as it's nothing like as awful as Run The World (or Pon De Floor for that matter - shoot me!) then I won't worry too much. Still I doubt it'll sound very 'No Doubt'.

 

What does No Doubt in 2011 even sound like? Unlike Gwen they actually kept some form of identity when working with different producers, 'Hella Good' doesn't sound anything like what Pharrell was producing at the time but we'll see. I think it's the perfect match (funnily enough I completely forgot he toured with her/M.I.A and remixed 'Hollaback Girl'). It's quite interesting really, it proves they aren't completely irrelevant and do still have some knowledge of current music. I was worried they only knew the best methods of wiping shit from their kids nowadays.

 

 

 

 

I'll be peeing my pants if they come up with something like Running. :love:

Diplo says it's a "big tune"!

 

AAAAAH. So excited.

Various websites are suggesting the album with be released on the 28th of November. Interesting although probably false. Sigh. I'm slightly worried they'll release during the Christmas period... STANNING.

 

I'm listening to Rock Steady right now and it's so fucking current. It's hard to believe it was released when pop music still sounded like Oops... I Did It Again and Jennifer Lopez couldn't release a song without Ja Rule.

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One More Summer updates the band's ska-pop sound with pounding dance beats, arena-sized guitars and a beyond-catchy chorus - "One more summer, one more weekend, I'm your lover, you're my weakness." Drummer Adrian Young tells his bandmates he can't wait to play the song live, "I might lose control and shit all over myself."

 

GWEN LOOKS INCREDIBLE.

'I might lose control and $h!t all over myself.' Ha!

Two months from completion? Eeeeee.

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It's sounding like One More Summer could be the first single which really ought to be released in the next couple of months!

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DIPLO AND SWITCH.

 

 

"Hi everybody. We don't know a release date because it's not finished. No one wants the album out sooner than we do! To make the long story short, we really want it to be great, and have kept writing and recording for the past year and a half in pursuit of that goal. Yep we're parents now and our kids and families come first, I think everyone would agree. So maybe that's slowed our pace a little bit. The good news is that the album is truly sounding incredible and we're really making magic here. When it's out, it's out forever, no point in releasing crap, right? Why not shoot to make the best ND album yet? Anywho, thanks for caring and for your incredible patience, you'll be rewarded I promise! Best, Tom".

 

OH GOD WE ARE NEVER GOING TO GET IT.

 

:mellow: I hate waiting like this!

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Where: The Pass Studios, Hollywood; A&M Studios, Hollywood; The Mix Suite, Santa Monica

Producer: Mark “Spike” Stent

Song Titles: Undercover, Settle Down, Easy, Dreaming The Same Dream, Heaven, One More Summer

Due: Late 2011

 

On a gorgeous, sun-drenched Santa Monica afternoon, No Doubt can be found hunkered down in the dark expanses of The Mix Suite studio, where they’ve been working on their as-yet-untitled, very much unfinished new album since the beginning of the year. “We’re sure our management have arranged this interview to shock us into hurrying up,” says frontwoman Gwen Stefani. As the LA four-piece beaver away on their first full-length record since 2001′s Rock Steady, they’re rapidly tiring of fielding one question: What took you so long? “It seems almost offensive to hear that because so much stuff has happened in that 10-year period,” says the singer, visibly narked. “We’ve toured twice, released a Greatest Hits, I’ve had two solo records, two clothing lines, two babies… There’s been a lot coming out of me – literally!”

 

Stefani may have a point, but for the three blokes in the band, there does seem to have been some time spent twiddling their thumbs. Bassist Tony Kanal worked on much of Stefani’s solo output and, alongside playing for bands including The Vandals and Maroon 5, drummer Adrian Young’s golf game is much improved. “Really, it doesn’t feel like we’ve been away that long,” says guitarist Tom Dumont. “I enjoyed surfing and hanging out. I got married and had kids, produced a few things. I actually am a pretty lazy person.”

 

Fifteen years ago, the Number 1 hit Don’t Speak propelled No Doubt to mainstream stardom. Its video featured a scene in which a photographer ushers out each member of the band except Stefani. In the 2000s, that’s exactly what happened. As the bottle-blonde bombshell carved out a solo career, Stefani’s brand outshone that of No Doubt. A short break from the cycle of recording, promotion and touring soon turned into a long haitus. Did it cause tension? An awkward silence from the male contingent is broken by Stefani herself: “there was a time when I was touring and it probably was frustrating for them because it went on way longer than we ever talked about,” she says. “But we always planned to do another No Doubt record, we never talked about splitting up.”

 

Whether impatiently or not, the three men in the band began songwriting without Stefani in 2007. Putting her solo career to bed the following year, Stefani rejoined to find her band had grown rusty. “I couldn’t get any perspective on what we were doing,” says the singer, who was pregnant at the time. “Maybe it was the hormones.”

 

In frustration, they hit the road on a 57-date US tour in 2009. When they returned, they wrote a track named Undercover that finally let the genie out of the bottle. “Once we had that song under our belts we knew it was going to work,” says Kanal.

 

Writing throughout the rest of 2009 and 2010, the chief aim was to pen a pile of ultra-catchy tunes.

 

“Prince once said to me, Do you ever just try to write a hit song?” name-drops Stefani. “You know, instead of trying to be all arty about it?”

 

Beyond that there’s no grand plan, no over-arching theme, not even a concern for where No Doubt’s blend of reggae, ’80s pop and ’70s new wave fits into a musical landscape that’s been levelled and rebuilt since they last popped their heads above the parapet. “We wish we were good enough to craft it and have a vision, but our songwriting process is sort of desperate – we’re just praying that something comes out,” says Stefani with notable self-deprecation.

 

A focused songwriting process was a necessity of the band’s unforgiving schedule. With young families to take care of, work would begin at 5pm and end around midnight, meaning there was no time for messing around. “By 5pm, I’ve already had a full day of being a mom, working on my two clothing lines and working out,” says Stefani. “That’s the horror of any creative person – to have to be creative between certain times.”

 

the band then took to the Santa Monica studio owned by Mark “Spike” Stent, their longtime producer, in January 2011. Here, they play two new tracks: One More Summer, a beat-driven electropop track with a soaring chorus, and Settle Down, a raucous dancehall number that neatly updates No Doubt’s Rock Steady reggae sound. Other track include potential single Easy and Dreaming The Same Dream, which Stefani describes as a “prom song”. Though mixing is set to commence in July, there’s no release date set beyond “this year”. Even at this stage, Stefani’s celebrity lifestyle interrupts the process – the band recently took a break while she filmed a L’Oreal advert in Cannes. But for this unhurried foursome, it’s all about the process. “We don’t even need to be making this record,” says Stefani. “We just wanted to make it because of the process of writing songs, recording them and touring them around the world – it just feels right.”

 

And then? Can we expect another 10 year gap? Stefani fires daggers across the room: “Don’t even think about asking us what comes next…” (Via Q)

 

I KNOW I'M JUST TALKING TALKING TO MYSELF AT THIS POINT BUT AAH. NEED. IT. NOW.

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It may be even longer now their working with Major Lazer.

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your excitement is making me EVEN MORE excited than I should be. I'm no No Doubt stan but MY GOD I WANT THIS

It may be even longer now their working with Major Lazer.

 

I presume Major Lazer are the secret guest - unless they're using Prince again. There have been some rumours circulating that 'Easy' is the first single with the album next Spring. I REALLY fucking hope not. They love going for Christmas releases anyway.

 

Diplo, Switch and now... Detail? He's produced 'How to Love' by Lil Wayne and some other crap. Not sure what to think...

 

"After producing Lil Wayne’s top 5 smash “How to Love,” Detail’s phone has been ringing off the hook. The producer tells Rap-Up TV that he is about to head into the studio to lay down tracks for Kanye West’s next album and shares his recent collaborations with T-Pain and No Doubt. While he was careful not to disclose too much, he did promise to bring his A-game to half of The Throne. “I know when I get in with Kanye, everything’s going to go to a whole ‘nother level,” he said. He also has T-Pain’s next single off rEVOLVEr called “Bottles,” sharing, “The club’s gonna go hammer on it.” And he’s venturing outside of hip-hop with Gwen Stefani and No Doubt for the band’s first album in 10 years. “Think George Michael with a new party type of sound,” he explained. “The sound is crazy and I spent a lot of time on it too.” (Via Rap-Up)