McFly are looking to add some credibility to their pop sensibility by striking out on an independent path with their new album.
The chart-friendly four-piece have left Island Records after a four-year relationship to start up their own label, which they've called Super Records.
Singer Tom Fletcher told the BBC from Australia, where the band are putting the finishing touches to their fourth album, that creative differences led them to go it alone.
"We left a while ago actually, we left just before Christmas officially but we didn't tell anyone about it," he said. "We weren't dropped, we left on really good terms. It was just contractually we were allowed to leave. We had been talking about going independent for a while. We thought it was a good time for us to take the step and do it."
Going into more detail he adds, "we really wanted to take full creative control. We had a lot of creative differences. By staying with them we just felt that we weren't going to continue in the way we wanted to continue.
"They just wanted to always play it safe. We didn't want to be a boring band. We're young guys and all our fans are our age. We just wanted to make a fun exciting album that we're proud of and not worry 'Does it fit this demographic?' or 'Will it be OK for radio?'. We just wanted to make the album that we enjoy making."
