new WINGER album due in January 2021

[AlphaMale]

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WINGER's New Album 'Should Easily Be Out By January'

August 12, 2020 18 Comments

 

 

During an appearance on the latest episode of the "In The Trenches With Ryan Roxie" podcast, WINGER frontman Kip Winger spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's new studio album. The disc will be the follow-up to "Better Days Comin'", which came out in 2014.

"Reb [Beach, guitar] and I got together in December and wrote a few songs. We had put some Instagram posts up at that time," Kip said (see video below). "We actually came up with a couple of really good ideas, and a bunch of really not-so-good ideas. But right now we have what I can say are four really decent songs that reach the bar of what I'd like to put out. And then the COVID thing happened, so now we're doing a little bit of file sharing, which I don't love — I like to be in a room with people when I make a record. So we've been sending ideas back and forth and we're planning our next 10-day space. 'Cause we all like to get together in 10 days, and we burn out in 10 days. So we'll get together for 10 days and see what we come up with. And then we should be done… It should easily be out by January."

WINGER recently invited artists, friends and fans — including Alice Cooper and members of SCORPIONS, STEELHEART and WARRANT — to sing along to "Better Days Comin'", the title track of the band's sixth studio album. An official music video for the new version of the song was made available in late April.

WINGER formed in the late 1980s and soared to immediate success with its 1988 self-titled release. The album spawned the hit singles "Seventeen" and "Headed For A Heartbreak" and achieved platinum sales status. "Winger" also stayed on The Billboard 200 chart for over 60 weeks where it peaked at #21. Their next album, "In The Heart Of The Young", also achieved platinum status behind the singles "Can't Get Enuff" and "Miles Away". The change in musical climate of the mid-'90s, compounded with unprovoked ridicule on MTV's popular "Beavis And Butt-Head" show, led the band to go on hiatus in 1994. In 2001, WINGER reunited and has not looked back since. Kip also earned a 2016 Grammy nomination for the classical album "C.F. Kip Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky", recorded with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

[melodicrock]

Don't see this happening so soon...Frontiers have already locked in January titles. Prob Feb also.

[Geoff]

I'd love for this to be good but sadly have no expectation that it will be. Hope they get some decent production job for a change (in recent years). 

[martinsane]

Is it just Kip and hired guns or does this include Reb and others?

[KarpetRydOFunk]

43 minutes ago, martinsane said:

Is it just Kip and hired guns or does this include Reb and others?

Well, it seems so imply Reb is involved, at least. 

[KarpetRydOFunk]

I can't believe Better Days Comin' was nearly seven years ago. I'm always down for more Winger. Hopefully the magic is still there, though these less-than-ideal working conditions worry me a bit. 

[Aordave89]

Always happy for more Winger - Dusted off Karma this week, awesome album and probably my favourite behind Pull. 

[lettard]

Nice news,will look forward to this,Karma was very good although Better Days Comin' not so much for me.

[AlphaMale]

Karma was good. Better Days Comin' not so much.

 

[melodicrock]

On 10/18/2020 at 5:04 PM, martinsane said:

Is it just Kip and hired guns or does this include Reb and others?

Full band as per usual.

[KarpetRydOFunk]

Better Days wasn't as good as Karma, but I was never disappointed with it. 

[Captain Howdy]

small song sample on Twitter

 

 

[KarpetRydOFunk]

44 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

small song sample on Twitter

 

 

Hm. Could be good. 

Half way through February and he only just started vocals? Looks like they might miss that January 2021 release window. 

[lettard]

Sounds promising.

[AlphaMale]

Any word on this album?

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by AlphaMale

[KarpetRydOFunk]

19 hours ago, AlphaMale said:

Any word on this album?

 

You tell us. You started the thread. 

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[AlphaMale]

I don't even see this on any release schedule. What is taking so long?

[Captain Howdy]

A lot of bands had albums delayed during Covid. Any that had outside commitments seem to have been more heavily affected.

Kip has a bunch of stuff outside Winger and so does Reb, so sure that has been a factor. Hell, Fozzy just released their most recent album and that was originally supposed to be out in 2020.

 

Sure I remember a social media post fairly recently where it was mentioned that the new Winger album was hopefully getting round to being finished.

[Doug]

This is great news, and I sure hope with Reb and Rod (and maybe even John Roth?); this band is so criminally underrated. 

[AlphaMale]

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WINGER's seventh studio album is currently being mixed for a 2023 release.

Earlier today, WINGER frontman Kip Winger shared a photo of him and a mixing engineer in the studio, and he included the following message: "Mixing #WingerVII!"

 

WINGER's next LP will be the follow-up to 2014's "Better Days Comin'".

In December 2020, WINGER guitarist Reb Beach told the 213Rock Podcast that he and Kip had "written about seven songs for the new album. It sounds great," he said. "It's WINGER — heavy riffs with big vocals. Very catchy songs and very heavy stuff — very progressive."

 

A month earlier, Beach told the "Pat's Soundbytes Unplugged" podcast that he and Kip had pieced together ideas for 11 tracks for WINGER's next album, but that Kip "threw away six of 'em, saying that this has to be like the first BOSTON record where every song is undeniable. And he just wants it to be progressive and like nothing he's hard before," he said. "I brought him these riffs that are just straight-ahead rock riffs, and he said, 'I already know what the next three chords are gonna be after I've heard three chords.'

 

"We're going for something that's poppy and sing-along stuff yet cool, heavy, progressive riffs — kind of like [2009's] 'Karma'," Reb explained. "That's what we're going for."

In the spring of 2020, WINGER invited artists, friends and fans — including Alice Cooper and members of SCORPIONS, STEELHEART and WARRANT — to sing along to "Better Days Comin'", the title track of the band's sixth studio album. An official music video for the new version of the song was made available in late April.

WINGER formed in the late 1980s and soared to immediate success with its 1988 self-titled release. The album spawned the hit singles "Seventeen" and "Headed For A Heartbreak" and achieved platinum sales status. "Winger" also stayed on The Billboard 200 chart for over 60 weeks where it peaked at #21. Their next album, "In The Heart Of The Young", also achieved platinum status behind the singles "Can't Get Enuff" and "Miles Away". The change in musical climate of the mid-'90s, compounded with unprovoked ridicule on MTV's popular "Beavis And Butt-Head" show, led the band to go on hiatus in 1994. In 2001, WINGER reunited and has not looked back since. Kip also earned a 2016 Grammy nomination for the classical album "C.F. Kip Winger: Conversations With Nijinsky", recorded with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

 

 

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[KarpetRydOFunk]

Pretty much said all the things I love to hear: heavy, progressive, but also poppy with big sing-along choruses. I'm all for it. Hopefully they deliver. 

[Geoff]

8 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

Pretty much said all the things I love to hear: heavy, progressive, but also poppy with big sing-along choruses. I'm all for it. Hopefully they deliver. 

Fixed and agreed. 

The progressive element worries me, and seems to have been a factor in recent years, but hoping it's a somewhere-in-the-background kind of thing. 

My other wish list thing would be a killer production job, something like 'Pull.' No excuses for having underproduced albums, which I feel like, to some degree, they've all been since the brilliant 'Pull.' 

[lettard]

At last more news & something to look forward to...agree with Geoff on that I don't want the progressive thing to derail what I like about these guys.

[Glen]

Karma was hardly progressive lol 

[KarpetRydOFunk]

5 hours ago, Geoff said:

Fixed and agreed. 

The progressive element worries me, and seems to have been a factor in recent years, but hoping it's a somewhere-in-the-background kind of thing. 

I knew you were gonna comment on that. ;}