Andrew Stockdale, headband-fancier and keeper of the Wolfmother flame, has told NME the new album is “almost there”. The frontman and his three new recruits have been working away at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. “I’ve done 18 songs,” Stockdale revealed. “Hopefully it should be out in September.”

Wolfmother’s second album is set to be called Cosmic Egg. For real. “I did a yoga class and one of the poses we were doing was called ‘cosmic egg’, and I thought yeah, that’s it,” Stockdale told NME. “It’s like the fetal pose.”

Last month, Wolfmother offered up Cosmic Egg’s first hatchling, Back Round. So, is that song’s twangy guitar, rollicking drum fills and strange spoken word interlude a good indicator of what’s to come?

“Everything is magnified,” Stockdale told NME when asked about the shift in sound from the band’s debut. “The heaviness is magnified to heavier state. The simple ones are really simplistic, two-minute songs, and the journey songs are like 12 parts.”

Check out Wolfmother debuting new song Back Round at the MTV Australia Awards, with Resin Dogs man Dave Atkins looking comfortable behind the drum-kit.