Sunny Day Real Estate Doing New LP

No details other than the group plans to go into the studio in May.

By Fred Mills

It certainly wasn't a denial: back in December we ran an interview with Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk in which he talked about his band's 2009 reunion tour - the September concert in Portland is reviewed here - and he also left the door open for the possibility of new recording, as evidenced by this exchange:

Apparently a new song has already crept into the set? Tell me about that.

We didn't set out to write any new material when rehearsing for the reunion tours. It's just something that happened. It's impossible to stand in the room as SDRE and not try something new. It's like the music is just waiting there in the air for us to try it out. The new song (still untitled) was a basic jam I wrote one night after rehearsal and casually brought to the band the next day. What was a decent song idea the night before was instantly transformed into something much better...An SDRE song.

How has the tour made you feel about the chance that you'll overcome the various inertias and obstacles to produce a new album together?

It seems to get clearer every night we play that we have to record a new album. It's like someone wants to give you a free Ferrari with no strings attached and all you have to say is yes.

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Well, now comes word via the good folks at EarCandyBeat.com that "yes" is now the operative term: the blog is reporting that SDRE will be entering the studio in May to record a new album.

Writes ECB: "That's what Marco Collins, former KNDD and current KEXP jock reported [via Twitter] late Monday night. Collins wrote that he received an e-mail from SDRE/Foo Fighter member Nate Mendel stating the band would be recording in May."

The tweet reads thusly:

Great news yesterday. Just got an email from Nate from Sunny Day Real Estate/Foo Fighters... SDRE is recording A NEW RECORD IN MAY!!

As of this writing there's no indication when the album might see release or who will release it. 1994's Diary and its followup LP2 were reissued by Sub Pop last year. You can read our review of them here.