N*E*R*D talk about their new album Nothing, due for release in September.

N*E*R*D will return in September with their highly anticipated new album, Nothing. The band started out as a duo in 1992, when childhood best friends Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo formed The Neptunes. They later joined up with Shay Haley in 2001 to form N*E*R*D (No-one Ever Really Dies). Their debut album In Search Of... went gold in the US  and was followed up by Fly Or Die, which featured the wildly popular 2004 hit “She Wants To Move”. Their last album, Seeing Sounds, sold 80 000 copies in its first week of release.

Pharrell told MTV UK that they scrapped the original Instant Gratification album and started from scratch to produce Nothing.

“We scrapped 27 records because they weren’t good enough. They sounded great but what were they saying? So we went back in [to the studio] and just focused on feeling,” he said. “It’s almost like we did this entire album with our eyes closed, not because it was that easy but because it was that important to reconnect to what we feel. I would say this album is like scrapping everything and starting with nothing.”

The group came up with the title because, according to N*E*R*D* front man Pharrell Williams, “It’s like nothing you've ever heard.” The first single off their new album, Hot-N-Fun, featuring Nelly Furtado, is already gaining popularity.

As always, the guys are experimenting with new sounds. Pharrell says the new album is particularly directed at their female fans. “The music has been especially tuned in frequencies to speak to women … women will literally feel this. We are doing some other next-level experimentation with this music,” he told MTV UK.

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Sources: MTV | N-e-r-d.com | Myspace.com