Silverchair-News

Silverchair performing in Sydney, Australia 16 March 2006

In November of 2005, Silverchair announced they were working on the music for their (as yet untitled) 5th studio album, aiming for a late 2006, or early 2007 release. They played a limited number of 'warm-up' concerts (with Paul Mac on keyboards, standing in for Julian Hamilton of The Presets) in March and April of 2006 to try-out the new material in front of a live audience.

On July 16th, 2006, it was announced on the band's official website that the band has been recording 14 new songs for their upcoming 5th album in Sydney and Los Angeles, and they are planning to finish recordings for the new album in Europe, after which they plan to mix the album in the U.S. The new album will probably be released in Australia in December. No overseas release dates have been set yet.

Bass player Chris Joannou wrote a short overview about how the recordings for the 5th album went, which was published on the band’s website on July 27th, 2006.



He wrote that the band spent 5 weeks in Hunter Valley, not too far from Newcastle, in late 2005 to play some new tunes together. Prior to that Johns had been busy recording home demos on his own.



Then the demos were recorded in a recording studio in Sydney and once the band had put it all together they headed for L.A. to start recording the songs as they would appear on the album.

Nick Launay was hired to produce the album together with Johns and during the time in L.A., some more songs were written (and recorded?).

Van Dyke Parks was hired to do some orchestral arrangements for 3 new songs and these orchestrations were recorded in 3 days in Prague.

Johns is currently finalizing his last vocal parts and the band plans to start mixing in L.A. in a few weeks.

The album should be released in December 2006 in Australia and they will probably do some shows around that date.

It was also revealed that the band will play at Homebake on December 2nd, 2006.