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"Michelle Branch has revealed that her new album will mark a return to her pop roots. The singer, whose last studio release was a country record as part of the Wreckers, said that she has been writing a &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;creative&amp;quot; LP in the vein of her debut The Spirit Room in London with producers Jim Irvin and Julian Emrey.  Irvin and Emrey are best known for their work with McFly, Boyzone and David Guetta.  In a Ustream chat, she said: &amp;quot;I was in London - I&amp;#039;ve been working on a new record Julian Emrey and Jim Irvine, who are these two writers I met in LA. The first song we wrote together is a song called &amp;#039;Spark&amp;#039;, and we were so excited about it - it was the best writing day possible! &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s great because they&amp;#039;re writers and also producers. My favourite song that we wrote together was called &amp;#039;The Story Of Us&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s a song that&amp;#039;s really personal to me.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;I have 11 or 12 songs ready to go right now and I&amp;#039;m going to go in studio in January and start recording them. I&amp;#039;m really confident I will have this record out by next summer.&amp;quot;  On the album&amp;#039;s sound, she said: &amp;quot;I hate putting labels on it because a good song is a good song. This record is more in the vein of my first record, which I would say was a pop record.  &amp;quot;The last record became so exhausting that this one is all about having fun and being creative again and not feeling like I have to write a specific way for a specific genre.&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;Everywhere&amp;#039; star&amp;#039;s last solo studio LP was 2003&amp;#039;s Hotel Paper, which peaked at number 35 on the UK album chart and number two in the US.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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