New Glasvegas Album to Feature Songs About "Love Gained and Love Lost"

Glasvegas are working on the follow-up to their self-titled debut, and it sounds like the Scottish quartet will be sticking with the romantic spirit of their first record for this new effort.

"Love gained and love lost," frontman James Allan told NME.com when asked to describe the forthcoming record's themes. "The idea of finding love and losing love. I still think I'm clueless when it comes to songwriting and describing how I'm feeling, what I've seen and what comes to me in the middle of the night. But it is an album of love songs. It is a definite follow on from the debut, which also had love songs on it, but was mainly about having aspirations to love."

As Allan suggested back in July, the group will leave their native Glasgow and head to Los Angeles to do the actual recording of the album. While they're in L.A., they'll be working with renowned producer Rick Rubin on the record's drum sounds. There's no word yet on when this follow-up will be released, but I wonder if Glasvegas will be bumping into the Red Hot Chili Peppers while they're in Southern California -- the Funky Monks have made their last five albums with Rubin, and the expectation is that they'll team up with him again for their new record.

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