According to the group, a number of songs have already been written for the follow-up to their self-titled 3:33/Universal debut album and they’re anxious to get to back into the studio.

“We want to send our sincerest apologies to our fans who were waiting to see us on tour,” Unified Theory said in a collective statement.

“We hope they’ll understand that we’re just too excited about our new songsand that we wanted to get started on recording them right away.

The bandmates said they have compiled almost an album’s worth of songs “afterspending the past few months scribbling lyrics on cocktail napkins, holding late-night writing fests on our laptops and singing into our personal tape recorders.”

Unified Theory spent the past seven months touring in support of their debut, which was released last August. Along with headlining their own shows, they played a number of dates with Live, Counting Crows, Vast, and others.

The band hopes to have their second album recorded and released by early 2002.