Ash man Tim Wheeler says that his band are close to finishing their fifth album, and that they have nine potential singles to choose from. The group are currently working in their studio in Manhattan, and Wheeler has recorded vocals for four songs so far, and says he hopes to have fourteen finished by the end of the month.
In an interview on the Ash official website Wheeler said: "I'm going to try to do a song every day. I've got the first draft of lyrics from when we did the demos, but there are verses I wanna change and lines that I wasn't totally happy with. So I'll go through and edit everything, spend an afternoon just working on a particular song's lyrics and then sing that song that night. There's one song, 'Shattered Glass', which we recorded already in the summer, but I want to redo two of the verses for that, just to get them better. And then there are 13 others to do."
He concluded: "By the end of January it should be completely mixed. Then the record company needs four months to do all the preparation for release."