The Aquabats discuss new album on Fearless in January

In a new interview with AMP Magazine, The Aquabats frontman Christian Jacobs (MC Bat Commander) discussed the band's new album(s), their label situation and the status of their television show. The band had recently announced plans to independently release their yet-unnamed fifth studio album on November 9, but have since negotiated a distribution deal with Fearless Records, pushing the release date to 2011:

We're probably going to put it out on FEARLESS, but here's the kicker: they want some time to promote it. So, on November 9th we're going to release an EP, which will be a single from the record and then the record will come out in January. We have been relying a lot more on the keyboards and there's a lot more electronic stuff in there, but I think kids will be surprised that there are some songs that sound a lot like old school AQUABATS!. It just kind of comes full circle, ya know? Right after Charge!! we got really into electronics and using keyboards and stuff like that, but it's been so long since the record came out that we've kind of gone full circle again and we're back to ska sounding stuff. There's more stripped down punk kind of sounds, and even the themes of the songs are just kind of silly and stupid like old school Aquabats.

The band last released Charge!! in 2005 via Nitro Records.