TORONTO — For the first time in nearly nine years, Superchunk is putting the finishing touches on a new full-length album.
The indie-rockers haven’t released a proper album of new material since 2001’s presciently titled Here’s to Shutting Up, but frontman Mac McCaughan says the band is on the verge of completing a long-awaited new record.
Where the warmly received Here’s to Shutting Up was a bit of a placid departure for the typically energetic, pogoing rockers, McCaughan hints their still untitled upcoming record might revert back to the form for which the band is known.
“We’re working on a record, we’re not too far from being done . . . we’re in the kind of overdubbing and mixing stage at this point,” McCaughan told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview from North Carolina.
“I’d say it’s more guitar-oriented than Here’s to Shutting Up. And maybe a little louder in general.”
That increase in volume probably won’t be evident Wednesday, when McCaughan and guitarist Jim Wilbur will be in Toronto to perform an acoustic set.