Friendly Fires: We're Using The Shining As Inspiration For New Album

Friendly Fires have revealed that they will be starting work on their new album in the coming months.

In an interview with 6Music, guitarist Edd Gibson said the band will record the follow-up to 2010's 'Pala' in a log cabin in Sweden.

''I think we are trying to force on an element of the film The Shining, or the book The Shining, as a cultured gentleman who reads and doesn't just watch films… We're trying to alienate ourselves into a world of music alone and see what we come up with.''

He added: "We're off for ten days just to be away from everything and do the exploratory music making, we will see how it goes." Frontman Ed Macfarlane added: "We tend to write quite good music in quite secluded, quite bleak places, in minus 25 degrees weather, Sweden, log cabin, pretty bleak."

"I kind of like the idea that we will spend enough time together that we'll either come out of the end of it absolutely hating each other or come back with something that's completely different from anything we've done before."

Meanwhile. Friendly Fires have unveiled a series of new remixes of tracks from their recent album 'Pala' – you can listen to them below.

The band's release edition of 'Pala', which will feature six new remixes including reworks of 'Blue Cassette' and 'Hawaiian Air' that has been remixed by  Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs,

Friendly Fires - Remixes: