Panic! At The Disco released Vices & Virtues in March, but the band is already writing new music once again for their next release. You can read a full interview here and a snippet of drummer Spencer Smith talking about the writing process below by clicking “Read More”.

You don’t have any shows scheduled after the U.S. tour. Does that mean you guys are going to do some more writing?
We’ve been doing some writing on the road. It’s really easy now to do pretty decent demos just on your laptop or in the back of the bus. We’ve been messing around with some new ideas, and hopefully as soon as we get off tour we’ll be able to continue writing and maybe bring some of the ideas into the studio and see where things go. As opposed to leaving the studio feeling like, “Okay, the record’s done, I’m tired of working in the studio, let’s get on the road,” we were sort of like, “Ahh, I feel like we just kind of hit a stride.” We were left with a motivated feeling to keep going, and we definitely want to put something out in a shorter amount of time than it took to get this record out.

Are Ian and Dallon writing with you guys?
They have been! You know, it’s been something we had been letting happen organically, not really setting any rules. Brendon works on stuff by himself all the time, but there have been a couple times where it’s just like, “Okay, we’re all just sitting here in the middle of a field playing some German festival, and there’s nothing to do. There’s just mud everywhere you can see.” Those times lead to everybody collaborating on whatever Brendon or whoever has started working on that day. That’s led to some cool things. I think we’re going to let it keep growing naturally and see what happens, and not really have any defined roles.

What is the stuff sounding like? Is it too early to give specifics?
I don’t know, it’s tough to say. The last two songs that were written for the record were “Ready To Go [Get Me Out Of My Mind]” and “[Let’s] Kill Tonight,” so I guess that’s a general idea of where things were left off seven months ago. I don’t know. When you are in the bus, you don’t have all these organic instruments. You can have an acoustic guitar and you can have an electric guitar—but as far as certain real, live instruments, you’re limited, so a lot more electronic and programmed things come out. And that could change when we go in the studio, but a lot of it now is a little more on the electronic side of things, at least in the demos.