During a recent interview with Knotfest, Chevelle’s Sam Loeffler offered an update on the writing sessions for the band’s next album. According to him, the group have “seven songs or so together-ish and then about 45 more ideas.”
Loeffler said the following:
“Well, Pete’s our songwriter so he’s our lyricist and everything. Basically, he just writes about what’s going on around him. If he’s taking the garbage out that night or has a bad day driving, he’s watching a documentary that really affected him, he hears a podcast — so he’s writing about those kinds of things. So if you’re able to internalize that kind of a thing, I think you have a lot to write about.
It doesn’t just have to be a relationship that — a relationship with your dad or your significant other. I think those are some pretty powerful feelings — I get it — but if you are able to bring in all those other things in from your everyday life, there’s a lot more to write about. So as far as inspiration goes, it’s not hard to find; it’s everywhere; it’s all around you. And especially nowadays, we have so much access to what’s going on around us that there’s even more ideas to pull from.
Yeah, we’re always writing; Pete’s always writing. We’ve got seven songs or so together-ish and then about 45 more ideas. But he has hundreds and hundreds of ideas from years. And you can’t use all those songs because your tastes change, especially over years and years and years. So you’re, like, ‘Well, this was a great song five years ago. I really liked it. Now I don’t like it at all.’”
[via Blabbermouth]
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