Rosetta will begin recording their as-yet untitled new full-length album in a months time with Andrew Schneider (Pelican, The Ocean) handling the engineering duties. The group will be overseeing the production themselves, while Schneider will also help out with the mixing of the outing in December. The group had the following to say about the impending sessions:
“Rosetta is less than a month away from beginning the sessions for our next full length, which is as yet untitled. It may end up staying untitled, along with all the songs. We’ll see what happens. Our working titles for the songs are:
1. The Hardcore Song (yes, really!)
2. Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In
3. Untitled
4. Blue Day for Croatoa
5. Sexultura
6. Crazy Eights (the 8-string song)
7. Why Sempei?There’s also another song we’re working on for a split with Restorations for next year.
We used to refer to all of our songs by numbers (“Wake” = 10, “Lift” = 8, “Monument” = 11, etc.), but that was getting unmanageable. Everyone got tired of asking things like “Is this 14 or 15?” at practice. These songs are in general quite a bit shorter than our previous work. It’s strange, though; they don’t feel underdeveloped. I think they have the same number of notes we normally put into songs, they’re just much faster.
Andrew Schneider is engineering this recording for us. He has worked with Unsane, Pelican, The Ocean, and a bunch of other bands that are much bigger than we are. Given that it’s the first time that we’ve made a whole recording with someone outside the band, it necessarily creates some anxiety.
I’m used to being able to goof off in the studio and do 85 takes if I feel like it, without costing anyone a dime. There’s more pressure in this situation to meet deadlines and bottom lines. The upside is that this record will actually come out on time (Andrew and I are mixing it together in December, with definite time constraints).”
Beyond that, the band also have a new split with Restorations in the works for a 2010 release date as well
