With their plans to record their major label debut in a transparent bubble and aired on TV creating furious debate, Cartel has done an interview with Billboard dicussing their feelings on the event. According to frontman Will Pugh:

I think what we did was, we made the best decision we could, and should have made at the time, and it turned out fine, It wasn't a failure by any means, but I think knowing what we know now, there would have been things we would have done differently or requested were different. I think they tried to make us have all of this drama and all of these things that we're just not, We told them we're not a drama band. They wanted to turn it into 'Real World' rather than 'Jackass.' We told them 'Jackass' is way more popular and funnier than the 'Real World' could ever be. I think if we'd known that from the beginning, we'd told them to go **** themselves pretty quick.

The record is titled Cartel and is due out August 21, 2007. It is the follow-up to Chroma which was released in 2005.

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