Pitchfork

The city may be there for them to use, but the men behind Pitchfork's fifth favorite single of 2005, the Futureheads, spent five weeks in the North Yorkshire countryside late last year laying down tracks for their upcoming second album.

According to a recent post on their website, the band recorded fourteen songs with Blur/Doves/Depeche Mode producer Ben Hillier "on a farm near Scarborough", "taking advantage of the different spaces to achieve different sounds with their instruments...guitars in the greenhouse, and drums in the barn!" Didn't My Morning Jacket try something like that once?

The tracks are being mixed this month, with tentative titles including "Worry", "Thursday", "Yes/No", "Cope", "Fallout", and "Return of the Berserker". We hope that last one is a Clerks homage. Or at least a Kate Bush cover in disguise.