The Chainsmokers Talk Their Return to Music, Tease New Summer Album - Listen Here!

The Chainsmokers are back!

Drew Taggart and Alex Pall stopped by the Spout podcast on Friday (March 3), where they discussed their two-year hiatus from music and shared some new details about their forthcoming album.

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The duo brought up their new single “High”, explaining: “We’ve been working on the songs on the album for, you know, two years and this was one of the last songs that we made. And I think we wanted to make… This one is like very in your face. It feels like there are all these like elements, production elements that we have a lot of fun putting in and have this alternative vibe, this pop-punk vibe, it has like some trap drums, it has a dance break.”

“The song is very fast-paced and, you know, we played all of these songs for all of our friends for, you know, since we’ve made them and you start to like get a consensus over a while. I feel like this one is like the best, you know, connective tissue to the rest of the album and so, we kind of like let our homies decide,” they added.

Drew also revealed that he would be singing on every track on the upcoming album.

“I kind of like became I guess a singer on the fly. ‘Closer’ was the first song I ever sang on. I just kind of went from there,” he shared, adding, “You know, I sing a lot softer now, which I think really helped me and these are like, you know, they’re kind of like novice realizations that I came to later in my career and I don’t know… My voice does sound very different on this album but it sounds the most like me I think, which is really exciting.”

As for when fans could expect new music, Drew said, “If you’re asking about the end date for the album, that’s kind of like a moving date, but I mean, it’s done. I can tell you that much and we're really happy with it and we want to get it out as quickly as possible and have fans have more to like nibble on than just like a single or two or three. So it’s a moving target but yeah, it’d be great. I mean, I really hope that this summer is kind of the summer that really feels normal again, I feel like it will. So, it’d be great to have it out by then.”

The pair then discussed their brief foray into the world of venture capital with their VC fund Mantis.

“We’re so obsessed with the idea of investing into people, you know, amazing people, and using whatever resources we have at our disposal to kind of help them achieve their goals. So, you know, for us, we’re lucky,” Alex said.

Check out the full interview down below!