Semisonic Far From 'Closing Time' For Next Album

02/02/2000 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(2/2/00, 1 p.m. ET) - "We have some tracks, we don't have a title, we don't have a release date or anything like that. We are hard at work," says drummer Jake Slichter of his band Semisonic and the follow-up to the smash album, Feeling Strangely Fine .

Slichter says the recording process is analogous to building a house. "The progressions are always hard to say. First of all because, as you make the record, things change. You pull the walls down from here and you put them up there. And you decide to go with a different color tile for the bathroom, and you change the color scheme. And it's the same thing with music," he explains.

Slichter claims that Semisonic seldom knows how an album will turn out. "When we made our first album, Great Divide , we thought we were making an album that was packed full of hits. And it turned out to be a boutique, underground diamond in the rough… something off the beaten path. When we made Feeling Strangely Fine, we thought, 'Well, this is going to be sort of arty and sort of an art project over in the corner,' and it turned out to a big success with a couple of big hits. So I'm convinced that when we're making the record, what we think it will be, and what it turns out to be, always ends up to be different."

Semisonic hopes to release the new album by fall at the latest.

-- Darren Davis, New York

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