Billboard.com reports that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy revealed to Albany’s WAMC radio station that the band hopes to release its seventh studio album by Spring 2009.

The report quotes Tweedy as saying that in comparison with the band’s last studio album—2007’s Sky Blue Sky—which relied less on studio flourishes and augmentations and more on the purity of the collective creativity of a band at a particular moment in time, Wilco will “allow ourselves a little bit more leeway in terms of sculpting the sound in the studio and doing overdubs and using the studio as another instrument. Last time around, it was more of a document.”

Tweedy confesses to WAMC that he currently finds himself disliking the previous albums since they do not resonate with his current state of mind. “But as something that feels artistically in keeping with who I am today, I think that they are inevitably going to fall short of that as time goes on. I mean, they just don’t continue to mean the same things to me, and a new record is kind of where it’s at.”

As Tweedy et al. prepare for the upcoming album, according to Billboard, the band will likely continue to straddle the past and the future as it plays material both old and new at its Nov. 29–Dec.15 opening spots on Neil Young’s fall North American tour. Billboard adds that the group has been featuring two new songs—“One Wing” and “Sunny Feeling”—at recent gigs.