Simple Plan already have “a bulk of songs ready” for 6th album

AUTHOR: Dominika | 25. June 2017 | 2 comments

In a new interview from Hungary, Simple Plan’s guitarist Jeff Stinco discussed the band’s relationship with fans, the reasonings behind David Desrosiers’ absence on tour and also surprisingly hinted on the fact that the band may already have some songs ready to go for their next album.

The Hungarian server Life.hu published an interview with Jeff Stinco today, in which the guitarist revealed a number of interesting information. First of all, this was probably one of the first interviews in which a member of the band opened up about David’s struggles with depression and how the band has dealt with this situation. Jeff even revealed that David insisted that the band continued touring without him. Check out Jeff’s quote below:

“We have a challenge on this particular tour. David, our bass player, is actually not with us. He’s having a really hard time, he’s suffering from depression, which is something that, you know, a few years back, I don’t think we could’ve discussed openly, but I think people are more open to it now. So he’s taking care of himself. And I think that as a band we decided to support him and basically allow him to take that time off and keep touring. And he wanted us to keep going, he wanted us to keep touring.“

– Jeff Stinco –

Towards the end of the interview, the conversation moved to the ever-lasting elephant in the room: when will Simple Plan release a new album? Jeff once again repeated that the band would like to not take as long as they previously have with TOFTT to make a new album but besides that he also dropped a very interesting hint on Simple Plan already having some material to work with! See what Jeff said below:

“You know what, we were planning on celebrating the 15th anniversary around the anniversary of the record, on March 19th, you know 3-4 shows and it’s becoming a full year of touring. But after that, we have to stop. Make a new record. And this time around we’re not gonna wait as long to put out new music. We have a bulk of songs that are already ready but we’re perfectionists and we wanna make sure that you know, like, what we release is actually up to par. And we’re ambitious guys, you know, we wanna… I told you earlier, we wanna keep growing and evolve and that demands time. So we’re gonna spend the time that it takes in the studio to develop those songs. As I said, it’s a work in progress. We’re gonna finish this touring, get into the studio and man, hopefully we’re not gonna take a full year of recording like we did the last time.”

– Jeff Stinco –

As you know from the SimplePlan.cz interview, the band definitely expects some song-writing to be done but it’s very interesting to hear that Simple Plan already have some songs they can use as a starting ground. Given that Simple Plan never write on the road, it is very possible that the songs Jeff mentioned in the interview are some of the “left-overs” from the song-writing sessions from Taking One For The Team. Chuck and Pierre wrote over 80 songs for TOFTT but only 14 of them made it onto the record. Now, not all of the remaining 66 songs are completely finished, but some of them might be and perhaps these are the songs Jeff is thinking off.

It wouldn’t be the first time for Simple Plan to use old material for a new record. In 2013 Simple Plan released a whole EP “Get Your Heart On: The Second Coming”, which featured songs originally written for Get Your Heart On. Similarly also GYHO itself included a bonus track called ‘Never Should’ve Let You Go‘, which the boys wrote for their third, self-titled album. In most cases however, Simple Plan usually start working on a new album from scratch.

You can watch the full interview with Jeff for Life.hu below:

How do you feel about Simple Plan possibly using songs they wrote for their previous record? Would you like to listen to more songs created in the “TOFTT” era? Let us know in the comments!