The Maine post album update

September 5th, 2011

Tori Thomas

John O’Callaghan of The Maine posted an update on their upcoming album. The band will finish the album before they go on tour with Taking Back Sunday and Bad Rabbits and plan on releasing the album after the tour. The band hopes to release new songs before the album drops.

You can check out the full statement from John after the jump. Will you purchase the album when it’s released?

The full album won’t be done for probably another couple weeks. We just have to mix and master some stuff. I would imagine it’s going to come out—don’t hold me to it, but it would probably come out at the tail-end of the tour with Taking Back Sunday. Hopefully, we’ll have a song out by the time we are on the road and just start letting people know that we are putting out an album. As far as a specific date, I don’t have that, because I think we are still in the process of figuring out all the marketing and stuff like that and getting okays from everybody.

As far as the songs are concerned, I’m really excited about how they turned out. I don’t think it’s what people are expecting to hear from us. For us as artists, I think it’s an imperative record to put out. We need to take it to where we took it right now in order to open up doors in the future for us, as far as our sound is concerned. It’s a lot more rock ’n’ roll driven. There’s still some twang in there as far as American country or American pop goes. We tried to make a balanced record. We didn’t try to overload it with a bunch of in-your-face rock songs about whatever, you know, depressing stuff or dark stuff. There’s fun tracks in there. It’s so hard to put it into words. I’m really excited for people to hear it. I’m really anxious to see how they feel about it and anxious to hear what they think. Most importantly, this record’s for us and for those fans that have kind of stuck by our side, no matter what our songs sound like and no matter what style we kind of jump into.