Arcade Fire Are Recording... Something

It looks like Richard Kelly — director of The Box, which features a score composed by Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Regine Chassagne and Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett — wasn't kidding: Arcade Fire are indeed recording new material.

Arcade Fire member Richard Reed Parry confirmed as much in an interview with online publication The Quietus this week.

"I am... doing some recording in a studio — Arcade Fire stuff," Parry said.

He said he was "recording some strings for some new songs," but would not say whether the tunes will appear on the follow-up to 2007's Neon Bible. All he would say is they were "just some songs."

Parry also would not say whether the band will tour any time soon, commenting that they wouldn't be out on the road "for the foreseeable future."

That's kind of frustrating, but Arcade Fire have been very, very quiet and cryptic about anything to do with their upcoming third album.

Late last month, Stereogum reported the band were working on the disc at New York City's Magic Shop studio.