Having spent the summer recording the album in Vancouver, Canada, frontman Conor Deasy has revealed that he went back to writing songs after they returned from Dublin to make up for the fact that "I guess I knew in the back of my mind we were still a song short," he writes on his MySpace blog.
"So we returned to Wexford in the "Sunny South East Of Ireland" for one last time to work out arrangments and demo two final songs. We are currently recording these songs as I blog with Tony Hoffer, our producer. When they are finished we are going to New York to mix them. And then it's finally, finally finished!"
The new album from the indie-pop heroes is scheduled for an early 2007 release, with the cover photography already snapped. Conor reports that the shoot was designed to "capture an older Dublin. Parts of Dublin that haven't been touched by the last ten years or so".
Fans' reaction have been, as expected, supportive, with one who calls himself TheThrillsLoveYou commenting: "I'm very very hungover today, and this little bit of news made me smile like a five-year-old on Christmas morning."