“Not having the looming pressure to crank out an album and get back on the road was a luxury,” McGinley says. “It’s not really a concept record per se, but there are a lot of reoccurring themes and there are some characters that were on the first album that kind of pop up in a couple of lines here and there,” McCoy says.īut for McGinley it was about the feeling of making the record. The new album, due October 25th, is not a proper sequel to the band’s debut, but it does share some themes. “Of course, we also handed the guy a Roots record and we’re like, ‘Let’s find the middle states between Maroon 5 and the Roots.’ But he’s just a dude we’ve always admired and wanted to work with on some level.” We actually rolled up there with a Maroon 5 album and gave it to our friend who was the engineer on that and we were kind of like, ‘Make our drums sound like this,'” McGinley says. Our first record that helped launch our career was The Papercut Chronicles, and usually when we go into to do an album we have somewhat of an idea of what kind of tones we want from the record. “We’ve been really big into Maroon 5 for years. It’s fitting the collaboration comes on The Papercut Chronicles II because, as drummer Matt McGinley tells us, Levine and the rest of Maroon 5 were a big inspiration on Gym Class Heroes’ debut, The Papercut Chronicles.
“My manager asked me who I would want to work with and Adam Levine was one of the first people that came to mind,” says McCoy.
Working with Levine satisfies a longtime goal for Gym Class Heroes.
In this first look, Gym Class Heroes go behind the scenes of filming the video against New York’s cityscape.
They just wrapped a co-headlining spot on the Warped tour, and released an infectious new single, “Stereo Hearts,” featuring Adam Levine. After a three-year break between albums in which frontman Travie McCoy did his solo thing, Gym Class Heroes are returning big time.
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