Kings Of Leon fans should expect something “sooner rather than later”
Kings Of Leon bassist Jared Followill says that a new album will be finished early next year.
In an interview with BBC 6Music, Jared said:
“We are in the writing process right now and it’s coming along pretty quickly. We’ll definitely get into the studio but you know we have no plans of finishing it this year but definitely early next year, so I think people should expect something from us sooner rather than later.”
The Tennessee-based band is working on their sixth album, following 2010s ‘Come Around Sundown’. In August, Jared reported that frontman Caleb Followill was writing for the new album. “Caleb has been writing a lot, and yeah, I think it’s going to go really well”.
The news follows an irritable period for the band. In 2011, they were forced to cancel their US tour after Caleb stormed off stage in Dallasand was deemed too ill and exhausted to tour.
His band mates were later inundated with rumours that they wanted to kick him out of the band and they were forcing him to go to rehab.
Smoke & Jackal, Jared Followill’s side project with Nick Brown of Mona, release the six track collection ‘EP1’ on the 15th October.