Bastille reveal they have written 25 songs for their new album

Bastille say they have penned over 20 songs for their next album.

The group's debut album 'Bad Blood' was released in 2013 and its follow-up should land next year.

Speaking to Billboard, singer Dan Smith said plenty of progress has been made on the new record.

He revealed: "We’ve just been very busy writing and recording a lot of new music.. We’ve written a whole album, we’ve got 25 songs, give or take".

"We’re kind of just finishing everything off and finessing what tunes are gonna make it cause it could literally be one of three or four very different records, so we’re just figuring out which one it is.

"When we started the album, this is more than a year ago, it was alternative R&B, a lot more electronic, then we went down a heavier rock route as well, then we almost came full circle back around to what we did the first record, more cinematic, then we did a load of horns.

"So it could be a lot of different things. But we just want the songs to be good and memorable and we want the album to be f*cking interesting and a good progression from the last record, something that we’re proud of."

"We have the name of [the album] in our heads, we’ve got the concept, I think thematically, in the last few months, it really came together and that’s nice 'cause a lot of the songs are quite narrative.

"There’s a gangster-related song, so we’ve found the thing that brings it all together and that’s quite satisfying."

Watch Bastille in action below: