Melbourne's My Disco have announced details of their new album. Dubbed Little Joy, the set was recorded in Chicago with sound engineer Steve Albini and mixed by Sydney's producer-of-the-moment Scott Horscroft. More known for his slick pop work with the likes of the Presets, Silverchair and Little Red, the band claim that Horscroft: 'brings out previously unheard textural elements, layering vocals, delaying guitars, adding reverb to drums, without compromising My Discoʼs focused vision. “These are things we have never achieved on record before,” says guitarist Ben Andrews, “Itʼs nice to have both elements, Steveʼs rawness meets Scottʼs subtle production.”'



My Disco - 'Turn'

When we took in My Disco at the Melbourne Festival last year, the band played a clutch of new songs. We said then, that:  "The Paradise-like robotic dedication to (mono)tone and repetition is still prevalent - it's the rack on which the coat hangs - but it seems wider now, more cinematic. Less claustrophobic."

First "single" 'Turn', however, does little to divorce the bands present from their past. Unless, in their world of minutiae and detail, you count squashed guitar tones, double-tracked vocals and actual-kind-of-singing as significant departures. Instead, 'Turn' ratchets down the band's intensity a notch, providing instead more of a mood piece, or segue between thoughts. Focused, as ever.

Little Joy will be released through Shock Records on October 15th.