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Scissor Sisters scrapped album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 7 May 2010
Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears has revealed that the band scrapped an entire album before recording what will now be their third album, ‘Night Work’.
Shears says that the group began working on new material almost as soon as they finished promoting their 2006 album, ‘Ta-Dah’, telling the BBC: “We kind of went straight into it. We probably should have taken a longer break. We worked on a record for about a year and a half but we shelved it. We shelved it about a year ago. … In my heart I knew it wasn’t right. I didn’t really know what it was trying to say. It left me a little bit cold”.
Explaining how he got back on track with songwriting, he continued: “I just ran away – I left for Berlin and was there for a couple of months. I just forgot about songwriting and had a good time and let go a bit. That was the impetus for this album. It was more about feeling like a kid again, enjoying a certain sense of anonymity and not having to answer to anyone. I was by myself, I had a fantastic time and I think the record really reflects that”.
He continued: “I knew this record was really important, it had to be great. If it wasn’t great, if it wasn’t something we could fully get behind and believe in, I think the band was going to be over. If we put out anything sub-standard, it was curtains for Scissor Sisters”.
‘Night Work’ will be released on 28 Jun via Universal/Polydor. It will be preceded by a single, ‘Fire With Fire’, on 20 Jun.
