Pitchfork

Bravely hopping back up on the horse that they fell so, so hard from with 2005's Worlds Apart, Texas crazies ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead have revealed that on October 3, they will release a new, currently untitled record via Interscope.

According to Billboard.com, the album, recorded at Trail of Dead's Mob House studio in Austin, features a variety of guest vocalists, including the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer and members of fellow Lone Star State band Brothers & Sisters.

Last week, frontman Conrad Keely revealed two song titles on his MySpace page: "Naked Sun" (written ten years ago) and "Sunken Dreams". He wrote that the effort's artwork will "tackle on Biblical theme (Salome), a mythological theme (Oedipus), a theme of American 1950s dysfunction, death, urban isolation, and one theme taken from a science fiction novel." So to clear that up, we've got Salome accidentally sleeping with her depressed, suburban mother...in space. Love it.

Billboard.com had the opportunity to speak to Keely about the record (he revealed that an additional track, "Wasted State of Mind", made the cut). He tried to approach the disc with an "I don't give a fuck outlook," but, he said, "it's impossible for me not to care, and when work got underway with this album I became just as emotionally involved as before, and it was another miserable ordeal. But at least I don't work at a coffee shop."

Trail of Dead will hit the road with the Blood Brothers this fall. "These days it seems we end up playing older songs more than new songs, but that might change," Keely told Billboard. "It's going to be particularly hard playing some of these new songs without the help of the backup singers we used in the recording. I wouldn't mind taking a break from touring all together, and possibly starting a family, somewhere far away like Australia or Venus."