There are many reasons for loving Birdpen: their next album is one.

Even though it’s untitled, and the tracks are yet to be decided, the rough mixes I was lucky enough to hear sound fantastic.

They’ve been putting samples on www.birdpen.com and out of the five you might’ve heard ‘Sorrow’ is the one that has the potential to break the band globaly.

These recordings deliver a natural progression from their debut ‘On/Off/Safety/Danger’ presenting the same amount of depth but with cultured experimentation.

The two albums are likely to be bridged by the track “Only The Names Change” which is classic Birdpen: a giant, tension filled riff lurking beneath a melodic sub-plot of a lyric.

It’s already a firm favourite with Birdpen fans across Europe and they are desperate for an immediate release.

So if you are curios check out this French TV show “One Shot Not” (Arte) and you’ll see a great live performance from March 2010.

“Only The Names Change” might come out as an EP later in the year and for album2 we’ll have to wait until 2011.

Another reason for admiring this Southampton duo is their unassuming nature.

When he’s not in the studio Mike Bird can be found guitar tech’ing on some of the hippest tours around.

While Dave Pen can be found singing for Archive, a European collective that has released seven albums and attracted many thousands of fans on Facebook.

Archive have recently announced something really cool and we’ll talk about that next week.