Earlier this month, A Perfect Circle announced that it would be touring in April, and that it would be working on a new album. This will be the band's first new album since 2004's eMOTIVe, and really the only new material we've gotten since then, save for the 2013 single "By And Down."
So what can we expect as far as new music goes from A Perfect Circle? Well, according to guitarist Billy Howerdel in an interview with Billboard, you might be able to find out on the band's upcoming tour.
"We're not promising anything, but I have every intention of doing my best to have us playing some new tracks during this run — with the idea that new music is coming very soon after. It felt similar to me to the very first thing we ever did."
When Maynard and I first started talking about working together in 1999, we collaborated on two songs, and the idea hatched to, 'Let's do a live show,' and let that fire under our ass be what's going to propel us to finish this music… And we approached it the same way this year. I said, 'We're gonna do shows,' and with those shows there's the hope of having some new music to go along with the shows. So let's let that be the thing that puts us in a panic mode."
The keyword here being "intention," of course. Howerdel leaves the possibility open that the new stuff might not be done by then, and if it isn't, then whatever. We've waited four years for a new song anyway, so what's another few months?
For all of us who can't attend, and pending there is new material. we anxiously await the horrible bootleg cellphone footage that will inevitably surface on YouTube.
