The recent arrival of new material from Crosses (†††) was cause for celebration from fans of the experimental dream pop project. Led by Deftones vocalist/guitarist Chino Moreno and Shaun Lopez of Far, etc. fame, last week’s pair of new singles represented the band’s first all-new music since 2014.
Now, thanks to a newly published interview with Kerrang!, that pair have revealed some of their plans for what comes next. According to a Moreno, he and Lopez have been rather prolific amid the pandemic and continue to work on new music, despite already having numerous tracks finished.
Thanks to their renewed burst of creativity, their time spent together also continues to produce further new tracks, leading them to a wellspring of upcoming material. However, despite the abundance of songs in bloom, the duo are planning to approach this latest era of the band in a more relaxed fashion.
Lopez asserted that they intend to keep putting out new singles sporadically throughout this year, rather than release them all at once. Thus, those helping for a full-length album anytime soon will also have some waiting ahead of them, as Moreno explained:
“We’re not going to make [the band] be such a, ‘We’ve got to do this now!’ thing, like it’s got to be all-in, all at once. The idea is to prolong this. We’re just not rushing and putting an album out – we’re sifting through it over time. At some point, once it all starts to take shape and there is enough there for a proper full-length release, we may release it with extra songs – kind of like what we did on our first record where we released five songs at a time and then put it all together at the end as a record.
Honestly, too, attention spans are so short these days. You put out a record and the next week [people are] like, ‘Okay, what’s next?’ This gives us a way to release it over time and have fun with it, instead of putting all our eggs in the basket at once.”
You can find more from the outfit on their musical chemistry and how they’ve been approaching their new songs over at Kerrang!.
