Night Driver (album)
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| Studio album by Busted | ||||
| Released | 25 November 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2015–16 (Los Angeles, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | |||
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| Length | 43:52 | |||
| Label | East West | |||
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Night Driver is the third studio album by English pop rock band Busted. It was released through East West Records on 25 November 2016, and is the band's first album of new material in thirteen years, following on from A Present for Everyone (2003).
In 2005, Busted broke up after Charlie Simpson quit the band largely due to creative differences and focus on post-hardcore band Fightstar. In the years that followed, Simpson and the other members of the band, James Bourne and Matt Willis, had various musical projects and ventures. In 2013, it was announced that Bourne and Willis would be joining with the members of the band McFly to form the rock supergroup, McBusted. Prior to going on tour with the new group, Bourne and Willis visited Simpson to let him know of their plans to move forward with McBusted. The three continued to keep in contact and in 2015, after determining there was a creative common ground within the group following writing sessions in Philadelphia, it was announced that Busted would be reforming with the original lineup.
Simpson, Willis, and Bourne traveled to Los Angeles before and after their Pigs Can Fly arena tour and met with producer John Fields to begin writing and recording new material. They expressed in various interviews that there was no desire to continue the sound of their previous work, instead opting to have no expectations in the studio and find a new sound. Much of the album was continually recorded without having demos and as a result, many first takes of vocals and instrumentation made the album.
The Japanese bonus-track 'Beautiful Mess' was originally written long before Busted had reformed. In 2012, founding member James Bourne recorded a demo of the song 'Gone' for his new band Call Me When I'm 18 (with Ollie Kinski). The lyrics were changed by the rhythm eventually became the song Beautiful Mess.
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