Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has hinted that the follow-up to their multi-million selling 2004 release American Idiot could be a power-pop album. “I really like fucking with arrangements and I always try to look at the possibilities of how you write power-pop music,” Armstrong told US magazine Alternative Press. “You know, it’s like, how do you take something and try to expand on the idea of what is supposed to be three-chord mayhem? I’m pushing myself to be progressive in songwriting and being a songwriter.”

The band are currently holed up in a Los Angeles studio with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage, Against Me!). Armstrong revealed that the songwriting is proving to be a “painstaking process”.

“I’m allowing time for the process to happen naturally without having to force it,” Armstrong told AP. “That is a painstaking process, let me tell you! For a bunch of guys that are ADHD [Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder], it’s hard to have patience!”

The as-yet-untitled album will be released next summer.

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