It wasn't long ago that Foster the People exploded onto the mainstream music scene as an indie outfit with some "Pumped Up Kicks." Two years later, the band is ready for round two.

Speaking with Rolling Stone in a new interview published this week, frontman Mark Foster a new "guitar-driven" album will arrive early next year. He explained that he hasn't "played this much guitar in a long time, so it's going to be really fun to play live, because it's much more organic and more in the vein of the Pixies and Clash and stuff."

Foster adds that, in his opinion, the new songs, are allowed to "breathe and grow and turn and take left turns and not come back if they want to. So it's a brave record."

We've known for some time that a new Foster the People record was near. It was actually intended to originally release this month, but Columbia CEO Rob Stringer, signaling that the new LP is already done, explained last month that the label "just decided, they’re so important to us, it’s a second record, we didn’t want them to be stumbling a hurtle too intense like that fourth-quarter competition. So we moved it to the first part of next year. The record’s so beautiful."

According to Foster, the album—which was recorded mostly in Los Angeles and London—is "more organic and human" than predecessor Torches. And he's already revealed some of the tracks included: "Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon," which he describes as his "favorite lyrical moment" and the "heaviest song on the record," as well as "Are You What You Wanna Be," influenced by his time in Africa, and "Nevermind," referred to as the "heart" of the album.

Although a release date has not been set, both Foster and Stringer have indicated it will be early 2014. Foster additionally revealed that the first single should be out in January.