The Cribs 'waited for corporate indie to sink'

Returning rockers The Cribs have told that the almost three-year wait for new album 'In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull' was due to the band waiting for 'corporate indie' to disappear from the music scene.

Speaking to the NME, the band - who release their new album on 7 May, 2012, their first after shedding member Johnny Marr - told the magazine that they were fed up of feeling like outsiders alongside other bands.

"We were just waiting for the [corporate indie] ship to sink," guitarist Gary Jarman told the magazine. "There was a period of time where there were so many bands, it was difficult for us to keep out of the regular channels.

"We were always seen as the outsiders, the band who were underrated or whatever. Underrated compared to bands who started out specifically with a corporate agenda?"

The band, who are set to perform at London's Camden Crawl event next month, recently revealed that losing Johnny Marr was 'a shot in the arm' for the band, telling The Daily Star: "We’ve got free rein to do whatever we want as brothers. So we rented cheap hot­els across America with our four-track recorder to thrash out the album, before finishing it from a garage in Wakefield."