Former Soundgarden and Audioslave man, and Bond theme writer, Chris Cornell is finishing off his third solo album, and he revealed to Ryan Seacrest last week that Timbaland has been doing the production on it.
Both Cornell and Timbaland called into Seacrest's US radio show, with the latter commenting on the project: "To me, I had to measure all the body of work I have done in my career. This has to be the best body of work I have done in my career".
Bigging up the collaboration, Cornell added: "I come from an indie rock world. If you have a producer who is not a musician and not a songwriter that is really someone who twists knobs and can tell you if a song is too long or too short or needs to be more aggressive. But Tim is a songwriter, so I was working with him in a collaboration like we were a band. The whole album musically is a pretty radical departure for me. It is the highlight of my career".
Timbaland added that much of the work on the new long player was now complete, and that he expected to have the final version of it ready in a couple of weeks.