Thrice plans double double album

With a triple album already released this year, Thrice has decided to raise the bar further, and recently spoke to MTV about releasing four albums in 2007.

Frontman (and current solo artist) Dustin Kensrue already promised "the most ambitious thing we've undertaken artistically" but went further, saying:

There's going to be four discs, and they will each be themed differently," Kensrue said. "It will be a large body of music -- maybe around 25 songs or so. I've never been a fan of double albums; I'm a fan of shorter records. This will kind of be just multiple, shorter records, and each one will be self-sufficient.

But also, they all tie into each other. We have a lot of bass material written for it, and we're kind of at this point where we have the core parts of the songs written, and we've been getting together and trying to flesh those out.

Kensrue's solo album will be out in October on a "big indie label" and the new double double (or more concisely, double²) album will follow 2005's Vheissu.