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 wish 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 number of weeks – however I wish to spend a portion of this 12 months writing the document. In an ideal world, it’s going to be written and recorded by the top of this 12 months.”
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 aim, when perhaps 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 might by no means actually gotten into the style. And there is wonderful 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 might do an album. I gotta respect the artwork, and I do not know that I’ve developed to the purpose the place I can [do it justice], you realize what I imply? But it surely’s enjoyable. It is enjoyable to fiddle with.”
So hey, at the least there’s new Animals As Leaders within the works.
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