Beastie Boys take a new direction

THE FORTHCOMING Beastie Boys album is set to take the band in a "bizarre" new direction.

Bassist Adam Yauch said the rappers have been experimenting with sampling new stuff for their eighth studio album.

He said: "It's a combination of playing and sampling stuff as we're playing, and also sampling pretty obscure records."

Speaking to BBC Five Live, Yauch said the trio, due to tour this summer, are currently putting the finishing touches to their new album.

He said: "We're tweaking some mixes and we're going to master it in the next couple of weeks.

"There are a lot of songs on the record and there are a lot of short songs and they kind of all run into each other."

The record, which hasn't yet been given a release date, comes nearly two years after their Grammy Award-winning instrumental LP The Mix-Up.

Yauch added that they had tentatively named the album "Tadlock's Glasses", after a former tour bus driver, who was once given a pair of glasses by Elvis.

He explained: "We had a bus driver years ago who used to drive Elvis' back up singers.

"His name was Tadlock and Elvis gave him a pair of glasses which he was very proud of. So for some reason that title - Tadlock's Glasses - has just been bouncing around."