July 9, 2009 18:56

Living Color to release 'introspective' new album

It's their first in six years

Living Color are gearing up to release their first studio album in nearly six years this autumn.

The band will return with 'The Chair In The Doorway', which is due to be released on Megaforce Records in the US on September 15.

The album, which contains 11 tracks, was recorded mainly at Sono Studios near Prague, with snippets being taped during live shows as well.

"We recorded everywhere. We even recorded during shows -- ideas that came up during shows turned into songs," frontman Corey Glover told Billboard.com. "(Bassist) Doug (Wimbish) made up a lot of grooves; we took a lot of grooves we had from soundchecks and gigs -- and he sort of codified and made a library of that stuff."

Glover added that the idea to record new material came while the band were rehearsing to re-record their 1988 hit song 'Cult Of Personality' for the 'Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock' video game'.

Glover said that the album, which furthers the band's trademark style of mixing hard rock with elements of funk and blues, deals with themes of introspection.

"Because we are older, we got kids -- that's the impetus for the name of the album," he said. "Sometimes it's the most ridiculous things (that) are the most obvious. The most obvious thing to me is 'Yeah, we are older. Yeah we live in a post-9/11 world.' ... But we still got to eat. I can't let the world stop me from being me."

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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