Former Ash guitarist Charlotte Hatherley has posted a message on her website regarding work on her new album, the follow up to her 2004 solo debut 'Grey Will Fade'.
She writes: "I'm currently in Italy recording the follow up to 'Grey Will Fade'. 12 songs have been thrown down so far, five more to go. The songs are most comparable to 'Where I'm Calling From' from 'GWF', with a little bit of the Paragons thrown in for good measure. Eric Feldman says it's 'the sound of Flirtinis on the beach', whereas Rob Ellis thinks it sounds like 'fireflies copulating in a bush'. Either way, it's becoming epic. The album will be mixed by Sir Ben Hillier in London in June."
In not entirely unrelated news, her former band are also hard at work on a new album, and the NME report that they have now written 27 songs for it (presumably they won't all appear - though in these days of iTunes selling albums off track by track, there's definitely commercial reasons why a 27 track album would make sense!).