A new interview by Ana Alonso Blanco has been released on Vowel.com. Read a snippet where Tom talks about writing new songs for upcoming album below.
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Q: Since January you have played some new songs during concerts. Do you have many more written down already?
A: Yeah, I do. I’ve been doing lots of writing, yeah. That’s been really enjoyable, I mean I love writing. I’ve been writing a lot recently. And yeah, it is so nice to write.
Q: Do you usually go first for lyrics or for music?
A: Both.
Q: So there is a fourth album kind of planned in the horizon?
A: Yeah, definitely, yeah. I am excited about it. It is my favourite sort of bit of the process I think. I’ve got to work you know, I’ve got to go to work. (Laughs) It’s the bit when I actually have to do some real hard labour.
Q: How many songs do you usually write for an album?A: It’s been different for each one. Like for the second album I wrote loads of songs for it, like nearly a hundred I think. The last album I probably wrote 15 songs and you know there was ten or eleven of them, I can’t really remember how many there were but there was very little that wasn’t used. But I am very excited about this next one, I feel like I am in a good place musically at the moment and I am excited to be getting it on paper.
Q: But there is no date yet right?
A: Not yet, no. It will be a little while I think. I hope to have an album out by next year.
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