Phish New Album 2013: Frontman Trey Anastasio Confirms Phish Working On New Record, Release Date Unknown

Trey Anastasio told "PBS NewsHour" in an interview that will air later this summer that the members of the rock band Phish are working on a new album.

"NewsHour" producer Mike Melia posted the news on Twitter with the following announcement:

"In his @newshour intvw, @treyanastasio confirms @phish is working on a NEW album & the band is writing the lyrics as a group. More to come.."

Anastasio told Rolling Stone in 2011 that the band would start working on a new project in 2012.

Phish keyboardist Page McConnell divulged more detail to Rolling Stone last year.

"We're going to try to create something that really comes from the four of us," McConnell said. He added that the members were "going to try to create something more in-the-moment together."

In the past, the band took songs that were already written and brought them into the recording studio.

Phish has toured together in the past few years but the band has not put out an album since 2009's Joy. Anastasio released a solo album last year entitled Traveler and also worked on a Broadway musical called Hands on a Hardbody that closed in April after just 28 previews and 28 shows.

Melia also posted several tweets with quotes about Phish's devoted fans from Anastasio in the interview:

"A lot of the people that come see us have been coming for 20, 30 years...And I know them. A lot I don't know by name, but there are people that I look out and see that I really genuinely feel a connection to people who stand like 10 rows back and dance that I recognize."