Over the weekend at Slam Dunk Festival, Pierre gave an interview to Brainstorming Music, in which he revealed quite a number of interesting information about Simple Plan’s upcoming 6th album and also made a short comment about David’s possible return back on tour with the new album.
You can listen to the interview below, but due to the rather harsh sound quality, we transcribed the most important parts for you below. Definitely make sure to read through it:
Pierre: It’s going amazing. Fans are gonna love it, it’s going to be the best record ever. I’m serious about it. The songs are really good. Really really good. Very very exciting. We have pretty much all written and we’re gonna hit the studio soon, we’re gonna record it and pop it out.
We know that you’re working with Travis from We The Kings. Should we expect a more pop/melodic album?
Pierre: Well, we wrote with other people – we wrote with different writers and we worked with a guy called Andrew Goldstein, we worked with Travis, we worked with many other people. But it’s nice to have someone who just… cause I like Travis to writing the song for us, you know? Cause we write and he’s there with us. The idea is, I would say, the lyrics, concepts – always Chuck comes up with that. Then we get melodies and stuff like that.. And it’s just nice to have someone that can help out when I get stuck somewhere, like if I have an idea but I don’t know where to take it. So Travis – he can play guitar, he can play the piano, he can play the drums, he can sing, so… it’s good to have someone that balances it out with more ideas. But I would say the album is Simple Plan, pop-punk, it’s got some heavy songs, some pop songs, it’s got some dark songs, very emotional, very emotional. Our fans are gonna love it. I predict it’s gonna be a fan-favorite.
Another question from the fans is about David. Will he come back on tour with the new album?
Pierre: I think he’s getting there, he’s almost ready.
