Arcade Fire’s Win Butler has posted a message on his band’s official website telling fans how the new album is coming on. The group are recording the new LP in a converted church in their home city of Montreal.

Apparently, it’s turning out to be a pretty grand affair, with talk of a lot of new instruments, a pipe organ and a full orchestra.

Butler wrote, “Just letting you know that things are going very well here in the studio. We have maybe 15 songs with little bits left to record and a few more we want to get to tape. We are going to try and record a couple of songs in me and Regine’s [Chassagne, wife and band member] living room, because the drums sound so great in there…Feeling excited and inspired, learning to play all these new instruments…well mostly Regine to be honest! It’s gonna be really interesting how we’re going to fit all of these new sounds in a tour bus. This week we are recording a huge fucking pipe organ on 2 songs…what an incredible sound!”

He added that violinist Owen Pallet, AKA Final Fantasy, who contributed to their debut, will be helping out on the new long player, saying: “Owen is coming here to record with us in early July. There is talk of recording a few songs with a full orchestra in Budapest…The next couple of weeks we will be pulling our hair out.”