Tesla frontman Jeff Keith recently spoke with UK-based NI Rocks about the band's new album, Simplicity. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Was there a conscious decision from the outset to keep it simple or was that just the way it worked out?

Jeff: "Yeah, we wanted to keep it simple. With so much of today’s technology , Pro Tools and all that stuff its very easy to overdo it and oversaturate the record, because there is an endless amount of tracks you can do and there are so many ways you can cheat and stuff. We like to make records that we can keep simple and reproduce live you know. Simplicity we thought was a great name for the record because we wanted to keep it simple and we’re a simple blue-collar rock ‘n’ roll band. We always like to make records, like I said, that we can play live."

Q: "MP 3" is a great opening track, tell us about it.

Jeff: "Yeah, we thought that with so much technology today, the world is overrun with technology and is out of touch with reality. That’s where we got the title of the record from – in those lyrics. We just wanted to talk about how there was so much technology and for a simple band like ourselves we thought it was a great track to open with, because we think it represents Tesla. A simple band and simple rock ‘n’ roll."

Go to this location for the complete interview and to hear the audio.

Simplicity, Tesla's seventh studio release of all new material, will be issued on June 6th in Europe via Frontiers, and June 10th in North America on Tesla Electric Company Recordings with an arrangement through Entertainment One Music And Distribution.

Simplicity was released in Japan on May 21st with two bonus tracks.

Tracklisting:

"MP3"
"Ricochet"
"Rise And Fall"
"So Divine..."
"Cross My Heart"
"Honestly"
"Flip Side!"
"Other Than Me"
"Break Of Dawn"
"Burnout To Fade"
"Life Is A River"
"Sympathy"
"Time Bomb"
"Til That Day"

"Burnout To Fade" (bonus track, writing demo version)

"Taste My Pain" (bonus track Japan)

"So Divine":

"Taste My Pain":