A brand new Elegant album is within the works with Jakob Nowell, son of founding vocalist Bradley Nowell. In a current Rolling Stone interview, the singer stated he was working with unique members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh on a brand new undertaking.
Nowell is spearheading the album, which might be Elegant’s first full-length launch since their 1996 breakout self-titled undertaking. Lately, he spent per week within the studio with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and producer John Feldmann, writing songs in anticipation of recording periods with Wilson and Gaugh.
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“Travis is an old-school fan and scholar of the Elegant catalog,” he stated. “They really feel like members of the family now too, man. There was that feeling from everybody that what we’re doing right here is one thing generational and particular on an emotional, religious, familial stage.”
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In an announcement, Barker described the undertaking as “actually particular” and stated, “Bradley comes by means of his son Jakob… Chills each day within the studio when he sings and performs guitar.”
Along with writing new songs, Nowell is digging by means of his late father’s studio archives for inspiration. “We’re combing by means of and attempting to distill down what makes a Elegant tune a Elegant tune,” he defined. “It’s been this enjoyable studying course of to get near and get to know my misplaced member of the family in a religious sense. I believe we go away a lot of ourselves, like this blueprint of our DNA, within the work that we create and put on the market. So actually it’s been additionally a fact-finding mission.”
Helping Nowell with the method is “actual [Sublime] scholar” producer Jon Joseph, who has pored by means of “not solely each launch, however each bootleg, each tape, each something that Elegant has ever performed. He’s monitoring each single chord development, vocal melody, lyrical content material and themes and compiling an inventory.”
Nowell emphasised that they might gauge fan curiosity with a single or two earlier than continuing with a full album. “If it feels threatening and lame and simply not a cool factor to do, we in all probability gained’t proceed onwards,” he stated. “But when there’s even somewhat little bit of curiosity and it looks as if we’re doing our job proper and respecting that legacy, then in fact, making music is what we need to do. It’s Bud and Eric’s job, man. It’s what they know methods to do.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Nowell stated Riverdale star KJ Apa was “just about confirmed” to be taking part in his father in a licensed Elegant biopic and revealed he’s studying by means of the script for authenticity.
Previous to formally reuniting Elegant with Jakob Nowell final yr, Gaugh and Wilson toured as Elegant with Rome, that includes singer Rome Ramirez. Final yr, the band launched their closing album and launched into a farewell tour with not one of the unique Elegant members.
The brand new iteration of Elegant with Jakob debuted on the primary stage at Coachella 2024. In Could, the group launched their first new tune in 28 years, “Really feel Like That,” that includes vocals from each Bradley Nowell and Jakob.
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