Although the group has not yet recorded anything for the upcoming album, New Wet Kojak guitarist/engineer Geoff Turner has an idea of what it may sound like: "This next album will hopefully be getting back to the core of what New Wet Kojak is. It should be more song-oriented like the first album."
The group's last album, Nasty International, was more densely atmospheric and experimental, crafting loosely structured electronic noise out of guitars, keyboards and studio trickery.
"But who knows where it will go once we get into the studio," Turner added. "Maybe the music will completely get bugged out like the last record."
The untitled album is tentatively set to be released in late 1998, Touch & Go spokesperson Rob Sieracki said. Sort of the dark, sexually charged cousin of Girls Against Boys, New Wet Kojak features Girls Against Boys singer Scott McCloud's Mark E. Smith-influenced vocals atop slow, throbbing, bass-heavy riffs and slinky saxophone lines.
New Wet Kojak consists of McCloud and Girls Against Boys bassist Johnny Temple, as well as Nick Pellicciotto, Charles Bennington and Geoff Turner -- all of whom have spent time in numerous Washington, D.C., bands, most notably Edsel and Gray Matter. Most of the members of New Wet Kojak have known each other since the mid-1980s, when Temple and McCloud played in Soulside and Turner was a vocalist and guitarist in Gray Matter.
Both Soulside and Gray Matter recorded for the Washington, D.C.-based punk label Dischord.
Girls Against Boys have finished their upcoming Geffen Records debut, which is set to be released in the spring of 1998.