The Wedding Present have kicked off 2008 by recording tracks for a new album in Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. The long-player, which is currently scheduled for a spring release will be the first Wedding Present record to be engineered by Albini since Seamonsters in 1991, although he has worked with David Gedge’s other band, Cinerama on several occasions.

The recordings have apparently been going very well, although, when the band needed to play one of the new songs again in order to get a guitar part right, Albini was heard to say: “Don’t drive yourselves crazy doing it over and over… and by ‘yourselves’ I mean me!”

David, Terry, Chris and Graeme have also become addicted to ‘electricals’, frothy coffee drinks invented by Albini himself.