New Found Glory will be releasing a new album and touring together this fall. The band has also confirmed that there are no current plans to replace guitarist Steve Klein. Read a story from Billboard below:
Because you four have been together for so long, you think it wouldn’t be the best to throw in somebody new at this point?
CG: Yeah that, and I think it wouldn’t feel right. I wouldn’t expect our fans to get used to some new member of the band. And also, we’re a punk rock band. Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name ‘em, it’s just how it’s always been. A lot of our songs aren’t lacking a second part. We’re not playing intricate, shredding things where we need more. There’s not much of a loss sonically. I think a cool thing, too, is when we’re writing for our new album, we’ll be writing as a four-piece.Have you guys started writing or recording?
CG: There’s little riffs here and there. We have the cruise. We have a few festivals overseas. When we go home we’re going to go into full writing mode. There’s a few ideas scattered. Me, Jordan and (drummer) Cyrus (Bolooki) all live in Southern California so we’re going to be meeting up. We already announced the tour in the UK — Pop Punk’s Not Dead UK — we’re going to be announcing a fall tour pretty soon in the States. And people can expect to have a new album before that tour.I know Steve Klein wrote some of the band’s lyrics. How will the lyrical process be different without him on the new album?
CG: It’s always been five ways. We want it to feel like a band. Even if I could write all the lyrics, even if Jordan could write all the lyrics, we always split everything five ways: “So I have an idea for this part.” There are parts in albums where I wrote a lot of the lyrics. There are parts on albums where Steve wrote a lot of the lyrics, even albums where Steve did the majority of the lyric writing. Then there were albums like “Coming Home” where I did most of the chorus lyric writing. But it was always split. Jordan had songs where he did stuff. Now it will be four ways. Now we’ll have (bassist) Ian (Grushka) and Cyrus contribute more.
