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5SOS on new album: 'We wanted to articulate the music in a way that we play it live'

5 Seconds of Summer have revealed they tried to mine their live vibe whilst recording their second album.

The Australians have been busy for for a number of months working on the follow-up to their 2014 self-titled debut.

The record is expected to be released later this year and speaking to Billboard, drummer Ashton Irwin said that they aimed for a slightly different sound to their maiden effort.

He said: "We'd always planned to push the guitars further than the first album, so we went into the second album knowing that we wanted to articulate the music in a way that we play it live, which is almost heavier.

"And it's kind of changed things to make it more interactive with an audience and better for an audience in a live experience, but we wanted to get that into our recordings, so we had that idea from the beginning."

5 Seconds of Summer meanwhile recently unveiled 'She's Kinda Hot' as the first song from their upcoming album.

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Watch the lyric video for 5SOS' new single below: