Matt Skiba And The Sekrets detail album no.2

By Scott Munro
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Alkaline Trio member and stand-in Blink-182 man will release Kuts in June

Matt Skiba And The Sekrets will release their second album on June 1, they’ve announced.

Skiba has replaced Tom DeLonge for Blink-182’s live dates in the US and will return to Alkaline Trio for their upcoming run of shows – but he’s still found time to record Kuts with AFI bassist Hunter Burgan and former My Chemical Romance drummer Jarrod Alexander.

He says: “The writing style and entire approach to this was a stronger desire to do something fairly different from my other band. We used sounds hugely influenced by early David Bowie and took more chances.

“I knew that the playing of Hunter and Jarrod would bring new elements to the songs that would help shape them and influence ideas I would never have thought of on my own.

“They did great stuff for the last record but had even more freedom on this one. It really shaped the way this record sounds.”

The follow-up to 2012’s Babylon was produced by Rob Schnapf and will launch via Superball Music.

Kuts tracklist

  1. Lonely And Kold 2. She Wolf 3. Krazy 4. She Said 5. I Just Killed To Say I Love You 6. Way Bakk When 7. Krashing 8. Hemophiliak 9. Never Believe 10. Vienna

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.