Simple Plan aim for 2007 release

Simple Plan's Chuck Comeau recently discussed their upcoming album which they hope to see released in the Spring of 2007. Cormeau explained the status of the follow up to 2004's Still Not Getting Any...:

We took a month off after touring for almost a year, and that was our first time off in almost seven years. And since April, we've been writing songs. We've written almost every single day.

We have all these riffs and melodies and slow and fast parts -- it's like a puzzle. Now we're turning all those parts into full songs and figuring out what the record is going to sound like, This is our third record, and it's a big deal. It's the record where bands usually fall apart. It's going to define where we're going to go for the next two years, and also where the next record is going to go. It's a turning point for our band, and we want to get it right.

The process has been slow, but Simple Plan currently have 10-11 completed songs, including a stomper called "Take My Hand" (which Comeau described as "AFI meets the Killers meets Simple Plan"), "Never Should've Let You Go," which kicks off with an intro reminiscent of Third Eye Blind and a piano-driven tune tentatively called "Forever."