Chic are working with Travis Barker on their first album in virtually 30 years.
Travis Barker is working with Chic on new music
The enduring ska punk band – who break up in 1996 after the dying of frontman Bradley Nowell – formally reunited final 12 months along with his son Jakob Nowell on lead vocals, and he has been working with Blink-182 drummer Travis and producer John Feldmann on new materials for the group.
Jakob – who will quickly be joined within the studio by founding members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh – informed Rolling Stone journal: “Travis is an old-school fan and scholar of the Chic catalogue. “They really feel like members of the family now too, man. There was that feeling from everybody that what we’re doing right here is one thing generational and particular on an emotional, religious, familial stage.”
He described the upcoming assortment as “the epilogue” and a approach for him to attach along with his late father.
He added: “It is the epilogue. One thing that explores my lifetime relationship with this wonderful physique of labor from a determine that I actually by no means even bought to satisfy, a determine who impressed so many music listeners and musicians world wide.”
In the meantime, the 29-year-old singer insisted he is not making an attempt to create a modern-day interpretation of the band.
Jakob defined: “The aim is to not create one thing that’s, like, ‘That is what Chic could be immediately in 2025′.
“No, simply extra of a stable respect and homage to the works of Chic.”
In the meantime, ‘All The Small Issues’ hitmaker Travis – who has labored with the likes of Machine Gun Kelly, Avril Lavigne, Goldfinger and extra through the years – has promised one thing “particular”.
He informed the outlet in a press release: “That is going to be actually particular.
“Bradley comes by way of his son Jakob… Chills each day within the studio when he sings and performs guitar.”
Bradley fashioned Chic with Eric and Bud in 1988, and launched albums ’40oz. To Freedom’ and ‘Robbin’ the Hood’ on his personal Skunk Data.
He handed away from a heroin overdose aged simply 28 in Could 1996, two months earlier than the group launched their self-titled main label debut.
