This barely deserves to be classified as news but hey, we like Metro Area, and we’ve been waiting the better part of a decade for the follow-up to their self-titled debut LP, so we’ll pounce on any sliver of info to do with it.

One such sliver appears in an interview that Metro Area’s Darshan Jesrani gave to Manchester clubnight Development last week (ahead of his appearance there on Friday).

“[The album is going] very well, thanks,” says Jesrani. “We have about 10 songs so far, with more to follow. It’s going to be more of a song-oriented album. There will be some tracks, but it will definitely have more lyrics and vocal arrangements than our last one. Also, I think the mood of each track is a little more mature from the standpoint of being written that way, mostly because we’re 7 years older. We’ve also been exploring more major-key stuff and some new wave/synth pop vibes.”

Read the full interview here.