Bring Me The Horizon hope to “push it a bit weirder” on new album
Following a successful run and a considerable change in sound on That's The Spirit, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes sat down with NME to talk more about the group’s hopes for album number six.
“I think there’s an element of what we’re doing now that will stay in the music,” Sykes tells NME. “People thought That’s The Spirit was a very polished pop rock album—it’s not. I think it’s inventive and unique, but it’s still safe in a way; we knew the songs we’re gonna connect well with people. Next time I think we wanna push it a bit weirder. Who knows?”
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Sykes says that it's hard to predict a direction for the group's new album at this point, but there is a potential for material with “a darker dance-y kind of sound” that would translate live on the festival circuit.
“That’s my favourite part—it’s something we do that comes across really well live you know when the song to us has a breakdown or like a heavy dance kind of vibe to it,” Sykes says.
“You know, there’s not many acts like that. If there was some bridge between what we’re doing, somewhere between artists like Prodigy or Massive Attack and stuff like that.”
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As for when we can expect new music? Sykes tells NME that they're putting a new album on hold until they finish their run with That’s The Spirit and take the time off to properly fuel an album that's different than anything they've done before.
“We do an album, then tour the shit out of it and then worry about new music,” Sykes tells NME. “It’s been an intense year for us, and not just in professional terms but like personal too. Some of the band have had a lot on their plates and stuff. We do enjoy writing organically and letting something happen, but we’ve been working pretty relentlessly like the last album.
“We need to maybe like take a break, Jordan’s got a kid now, people have got families and stuff, we need to take a bit of time to like chill out and then really get hungry to write again. It’s gonna be a tough one because we never want to write the same album again. I don’t even know what it’s gonna sound like but it’s gonna sound different.”
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