Announcing NOFX's Single Album last January, frontman Fat Mike revealed he was aiming to write "a perfect double album," but ultimately scrapped the plan. Now, he's shared in a new interview that the rest of that material will see the light of day.
Speaking with Australia's Wall of Sound, the vocalist reflected of their 2021 LP, "what happened with our last album was we just kept recording more and more songs. And [producer/engineer Bill Stevenson]'s like 'how many songs we fucking recording?' 'I don't know, like a lot of them.'"
Mike went on to reveal that although the double-disc effort didn't come to fruition, "I'll be finished in two weeks on Single Album – Disc Two." He went on the characterize it as "the funniest NOFX album ... It's fast. It's fun. It's completely different than the first album."
"It was all written and recorded at the same time. But I just I couldn't finish and I wanted to put up something out because it had been four years," Mike added, sharing that Disc Two would see release in 2023. Beyond that, he also teased that material has already been written for two additional albums:
All right. Man, I'm excited. So you've got Disc Two coming out and then another album?
And then two more
And then two more?
Well, I wrote the 70 songs over COVID.
Fair enough. Do you have time to sleep between all this and your other projects and you know, business and everything else?
I do sleep every night. My band Codefendants, I'm busy with that now and I have a lot of projects … My musical – the movies being made in February, but I do sleep. Because my lady, she ties me to the bed and makes me.
That'll do it
I have a trunk at the end of my bed. It's a big trunk. It has leather, it's lined with leather. And it's like my thinking trunk – I call it thinking inside the box. And she puts me in it tied up, locks me in and leaves me there. And that's when I really come up with cool ideas. Thinking inside the box. True story.
Read Exclaim!'s review of Single Album. That LP followed West Coast vs. Wessex, NOFX's 2020 collaborative covers LP with Frank Turner.
Speaking with Australia's Wall of Sound, the vocalist reflected of their 2021 LP, "what happened with our last album was we just kept recording more and more songs. And [producer/engineer Bill Stevenson]'s like 'how many songs we fucking recording?' 'I don't know, like a lot of them.'"
Mike went on to reveal that although the double-disc effort didn't come to fruition, "I'll be finished in two weeks on Single Album – Disc Two." He went on the characterize it as "the funniest NOFX album ... It's fast. It's fun. It's completely different than the first album."
"It was all written and recorded at the same time. But I just I couldn't finish and I wanted to put up something out because it had been four years," Mike added, sharing that Disc Two would see release in 2023. Beyond that, he also teased that material has already been written for two additional albums:
All right. Man, I'm excited. So you've got Disc Two coming out and then another album?
And then two more
And then two more?
Well, I wrote the 70 songs over COVID.
Fair enough. Do you have time to sleep between all this and your other projects and you know, business and everything else?
I do sleep every night. My band Codefendants, I'm busy with that now and I have a lot of projects … My musical – the movies being made in February, but I do sleep. Because my lady, she ties me to the bed and makes me.
That'll do it
I have a trunk at the end of my bed. It's a big trunk. It has leather, it's lined with leather. And it's like my thinking trunk – I call it thinking inside the box. And she puts me in it tied up, locks me in and leaves me there. And that's when I really come up with cool ideas. Thinking inside the box. True story.
Read Exclaim!'s review of Single Album. That LP followed West Coast vs. Wessex, NOFX's 2020 collaborative covers LP with Frank Turner.
