Wilco are going to begin writing a new album later this month.
Set to be the follow-up to 2009’s ‘Wilco (The Album)’, the Chicago-based group are currently taking some time off after recently finishing a European tour.
"We’re taking a couple of weeks off," Pat Sansone told the Los Angeles Times. "When I get back toward the end of [the] month, we’re getting back together to start working, to start the first writing sessions for the record. We’ve done a little bit of brainstorming, but the real work is going to begin at the end of [the] month."
As previously reported, frontman Jeff Tweedy revealed that the group are still unsure how they will release the LP, although did speak favourably about Radiohead‘s pay-what-you-want release of ‘In Rainbows’.
"I know some of the guys in Radiohead and talk to them, but our manager pays more attention to the[ir] business models than I do," he admitted. "When Radiohead streamed their album and let people pay what they wanted, I thought that was similar to what we had been doing for years, but we didn’t take the money because we were on a major at the time; we ended up giving the money to charity."
He added: "Everyone made a big deal of it, but it seemed like such a no-brainer to me. The record is going to leak anyway and people are going to download it at some point before it comes out, [that] you might as well make something rather than make nothing."
