Excellent news! Animals As Leaders is plotting the follow-up to their 2022 document Parrhesia. In an interview with Guitar World, Animals As Leaders mastermind Tosin Abasi stated he’d prefer to spend a bit of 2025 engaged on (and hopefully finishing) the brand new document.
“We’re about to start pre-production on an album,” stated Abasi. “We do have some touring – we’re headed to Europe in a couple of weeks – however I need to spend a portion of this yr writing the document. In an ideal world, it’s going to be written and recorded by the tip of this yr.”
Abasi additionally touched on his long-rumored blues album, noting that he is simply having enjoyable studying the style in the meanwhile. Which is a cool tackle creativity – merely having fun with the method as an alternative of working towards an finish purpose, when possibly that is not the only option.
“That is humorous, as a result of [Abasi Concepts COO, Ivan Chopik] is a incredible blues guitarist, and I would by no means actually gotten into the style. And there is superb gamers like Josh Smith and Eric Gales that I am like, ‘Okay, I have been lacking out.’
“So I had a second over the pandemic, the place I used to be like, ‘I am studying the blues,’ and I obtained actually into it, and I stated I would do an album. I gotta respect the artwork, and I do not know that I’ve advanced to the purpose the place I can [do it justice], you already know what I imply? Nevertheless it’s enjoyable. It is enjoyable to fiddle with.”
So hey, a minimum of there’s new Animals As Leaders within the works.
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