Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme says the band want to experimentation with things that �are kind of alien� when they phonograph record their young album.
The group presently have septet songs in construction for the record, which will be the follow-up to 2006's 'Black Holes And Revelations'.
But Wolstenholme said that none of them were at the stage where they could be recorded.
�We just wanted to get started this year, only to get the globe rolling a little bit rather than just hold off for a year or so doing nothing and then father in the studio, and go, what do we do now?� he told BBC 6Music.
Speaking about the direction of the new material, the bassist said: "We're looking to do fresh things and we'll just now try and do things that ar kind of alien to us, you know, and things we haven't done before 'cos that's what we find challenging about making music."
Muse's last performance of 2008 came at the V Festival in August where they headlined the dual event in Chelmsford and Staffordshire.
You can see pictures from the band's set below.
Muse at V Festival 2008
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