Rush frontman Geddy Lee says that work on the band’s new album is coming along well and the group hopes to be finished recording by the end of the year, with the album due out in spring 2012.
"We’re almost finished writing," Lee told Rolling Stone. "We wound the machine back up about three weeks ago. After a sluggish start, we’ve had a very fruitful couple of weeks in terms of writing. I’m very pleased with the direction that the material has taken. And I think we have one or two more songs that we’d like to write, and then we’ll start recording in earnest. Hopefully we’ll have all of the recording done before Christmas. Then we’ll mix it some time in the next year, and then get it out."
When asked for a more precise timeline, Lee added: "I hope it’ll be out by the spring anyway."
According to Lee, the album will have a different sound than the band’s last album, Snakes and Arrows (2007): "It’s not finished so it’s hard to say exactly what it will sound like in totality, but I think that the direction of ‘Caravan’ and ‘BU2B’ sort of points in the direction that we’re going," he explained.