Yellowcard starts recording new album

Yellowcard entered the studio on Tuesday (January 2nd) to begin recording its fifth album, the follow-up to last year's Lights And Sounds. The band wrote at its MySpace page, "It is kind of surreal to us that we are back in the studio already. Making a new record is an amazing thing. Its a fresh start. A new set of songs we will be pouring our hearts into not just for the next two months of work but the rest of our career as Yellowcard. The energy in this place is just radical right now."

The post tentatively promised that the band would put samples of new songs up on the MySpace page.

Lights And Sounds came out just under a year ago, on January 24th, 2006. Although it debuted at Number Five on the Billboard Top 200, the CD failed to match the platinum sales of the group's previous effort, Ocean Avenue.

Yellowcard faced another challenge later in the year when singer Ryan Key underwent surgery in April for a cyst on his vocal chords.