Norma Jean are aiming to step outside of the traditional album cycle this year. While they have a new studio album coming out sometime in the summer, the band are also hoping to write and record a new EP and record another album live in the studio.
The following exchange recently took place between Propertyofzack.com and band frontman Cory Brandan in regards to that:
I know you said you’ll keep making music forever. Do you think that’s Norma Jean’s future? What do you see after this album cycle?
We already have ideas to do something directly after this record. We’re going to record a completely live record in the studio. It will be released like that. We want to write new songs and track it live in like a week. So we’re working on that, it will be cool. We want to go work with an old producer, maybe Ross Robinson. Which would be awesome, I think. He’s definitely into it. So I think we’ll do that.
Is there anything written for that or are you just going to kind of wing it?
We have one song that got scrapped from this record, but I think we’ll probably just write something in a couple of weeks and go for it. We also want to do this cool thing we were talking about: writing and recording an EP in 24 hours. Film it and stay up…
Just go from beginning to end in one day?
Yeah. So we’re going to start working on that pretty soon too. That will be fun. We’re going to do some fun, different stuff. I don’t want to keep doing… I’ve been doing this so long it’s like, “Ok here’s the cycle: we put out a record, now it’s time to tour, now it’s time to write, now it’s time to put out another record.” We want to break it up and do some weird and different things that wouldn’t necessarily happen…”
