The Maccabees will record their second album later this year, with a view to releasing it early in 2009.
Frontman Orlando Weeks told Gigwise: "We're going to start recording in September, and hopefully have the album out in January or February. We wrote a lot of 'Colour It In' four years ago, so we don't want the new record to sound like that. This one is less straight-forward, but still spirited. I'm just looking forward to getting the new record finished and then trying to persuade everyone that the newer songs are better than the old ones".