All You Need To Know About McBusted's New Album

Only a year has passed since the epic announcement that former Busted members, James Bourne and Matt Willis, would join forces with UK popstars McFly, and its been a pretty wild ride for the McBusted group since then. It only makes sense now that things get even crazier as the band has finally announced their debut album, set for release on December 3.

The self-titled record, which will be distributed via Island Records, will be the first official McBusted release, but it'll also be the first album in general from all of the guys in quite a while. The last we heard from McFly was 2010's Above the Noise, while James Bourne released his Future Boy solo album in the same year as well. It's more of a musical homecoming for Matt Willis, however, as his last material came in the form of his excellent solo effort back in 2006.

Before McBusted came to fruition, McFly was reportedly working on the follow-up to Above the Noise, and Bourne was set and ready to drop the sequel to his first Future Boy album. While Future Boy took the direction of a more experimental pop sound, he also planned to go back to his Busted roots with a new pop-rock oriented record.

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Obviously, everything kind of came to a screeching halt when McBusted became a smash hit overnight. A few worldwide tours later, and the album's announcement became a much bigger deal than anyone imagined - but what's more intriguing about it is the songs that are going to be on it. The record's lead single, 'Air Guitar,' has already made a splash in the UK, and it's that sugary pop goodness that we've been missing from the McFly and Busted crew for years.

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Other songs on the record like 'What Happened To Your Band,' 'Beautiful Girls Are The Loneliest,' and 'Gone' have actually been around for quite a while. 'Beautiful Girls' was recorded by Bourne acoustically and put up on his YouTube channel last year, while 'Gone' debuted years ago when Bourne premiered it on a UK radio station; it was scheduled to be on his solo pop-rock record. 'What Happened To Your Band' has a bit of a deeper history: it was originally planned to be on Son of Dork's re-issue of their first album before they disbanded.

There's a lot of Bourne-centric tracks so far on McBusted, so is that the case for the rest of the songs? As far as brand new ones are concerned, 'Sensitive Guy' and 'Hate Your Guts' were written with Blink-182's Mark Hoppus (with Hoppus providing vocals to the latter) and the band has also collaborated with All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo. And although it's unconfirmed for now, a bonus track for the record, 'I See Red,' is pretty similar title-wise to the track 'Red' that McFly was performing live during one of the recent tours, so it's possible that it ended up turning into a McBusted song.

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If that's the case, it doesn't look like we'll be seeing a new McFly album on the horizon - especially if they're using their already-written songs for their new band. It's not like McBusted is planning on burning out anytime soon, either. While McFly will probably never officially "break-up," McBusted may be the only way to hear new music from them for the foreseeable future.