In November 2015 , guitarist James Valentine spoke about the band 's strategy moving onto their sixth studio album , saying the group wanted " to make a more traditional record next ... like the way we made '' Songs About Jane '' , just sitting in a room with our instruments and slugging it out . It 's been fun to experiment on the last couple of records with the more electronic sounds , but maybe we 've gone as far as we can with that for now . " On January 13 , 2017 , Adam Levine revealed that the band is working on their sixth studio album . According to Levine , the album will be released " soonish " , and will be R&B - influenced . On August 13 , 2017 , Levine announced at the 2017 Teen Choice Awards , that the album will be released in November
2017 Teen Choice Awards
2017 Teen Choice Awards
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