Avril Lavigne Gets In Touch With Her Acoustic Side On Next LP

Self-proclaimed “punk” rocker Avril Lavigne is getting in touch with her softer side for her next album.

Lavigne told Billboard.com that her fourth release would be primarily acoustic, a departure from the angry, amplified tween angst for which she has come to be known.

“A lot of the songs are mainly the acoustic and my vocal,” Lavigne told Billboard.com. “It’s a lot different from anything I’ve done before. It’s not a pop-rock record. This is more about emotion and feeling.”

Lavigne wrote half of the album’s tracks on her own. For the other half, former bandmate Evan Taubenfield and producer Butch Walker shared co-writing duties.

Mature instrumentation might not yield mature songs, however—several of the songs slated for the album were written when Lavigne was still a teen.

“It was probably the second song I (ever) wrote; I was trying to figure it all out,” Lavigne said of one of the albums tracks, “Darlin.’” “It’s really special to me.”

Her husband Deryck Whibley, the “brains” behind pop-punk band Sum-41, is producing the album, which is due out in November.