Australia's favourite rock sons Powderfinger have announced their sixth studio album.
The band polished off ten weeks in LA studio Sunset Sound (where 'Pet Sounds' and 'Exile On Main Street' were recorded) with producer Rob Schnapf (who has worked with Beck, The Vines Foo Fighters and Elliot Smith). It was the first time they've recorded an album overseas.The result is their studio first album since the heavily pub rock-oriented 'Vulture Street' of 2003. It's to be called 'Dream Days At The Hotel Existence' and will be released on June 2. The band marvelled at the sights and sounds of LA and said in a press release that the atmospheres permeated all the way up to the title.
Singer Bernard Fanning said, "The album title comes from a book 'The Brooklyn Follies' by Paul Auster, which I was reading during the recording. It seemed very appropriate with its ramshackle plot, large cast of characters and escapist idealism. To a bunch of chaps from Brisbane it is very much what Los Angeles can seem like".
The first single to be released from the album is called 'Lost And Running', hitting radio on April 16 and stores on May 12.
