New Tokyo Police Club Album Coming

Tokyo Police Club have been busy writing songs for the follow-up to last year's Polaris Music Prize long listed Elephant Shell and are set to hit the studio soon to begin recording it.

Keyboardist Graham Wright took to the band's blog on Friday to update fans on the writing process, which began in May and he says has "been pretty much nonstop since then." Singer/bassist Dave Monks has written a bunch of new songs and he says it's been fun to work on the as-yet-untitled record so far.

"We have eight songs pretty much finished, and we'll be hitting the studio in NYC in two weeks time to start getting them all down," Wright wrote. "We played three of them (End Of A Spark, Favourite Colour, and Breakneck Speed) on our last tour, but the rest are all new and really exciting. I'd say that this record is going to be pretty different from our last one, but if it's as much fun to listen to as it is to play, then you'll probably like it okay."

Monks, Wright, guitarist Josh Hook and drummer Greg Alsop will emerge from their studio cave to play the All Points West Music & Arts Festival on Aug. 1 at Jersey City, N.J.'s Liberty State Park and the White Rabbit in Newmarket, Ont. on Aug. 14 and 15.