begun work on the follow-up

According to Silverchair’s website, as of June 2009, the group had begun work on the follow-up to Young Modern ; they had spent three weeks recording in Australia with future sessions earmarked for later that year. No release date was set, but the band uploaded in-studio videos of them working on several tracks to their official website. In December, Johns called in to Triple J’s breakfast show, Robbie, Marieke and The Doctor , and discussed the band’s new album which they were working on in Newcastle. He told them, “the main difference is there’s a lot of experimentation with instruments and synths… I think there’s only guitar on four songs out of fifty so far,” but added the new material is “surprisingly rocky given there’s no guitar.” In April 2010, via the band’s website, Joannou announced they would perform two new songs called “16” and “Machina Collecta” at May’s Groovin’ the Moo festival. He said work was progressing well and confirmed there was, as yet, no title for the proposed album and that they were simply referring to it as Album No. 6 . The final concert of the festival was at Bunbury on 15 May, while what would turn out to be the band’s final live appearance was a controversial set at the Northern Territory’s Bassinthegrass festival a week later on 22 May. By year’s end, work on the album had stopped because each member had pursued other interests.