The regrouped No Doubt autonomous to bout afore recording a fresh anthology in adjustment to jog the band's -- and decidedly singer/lyricist Gwen Stefani's -- creativity. And so far, bandage associates report, the action seems to be working.

"We absolutely feel on top of our bold appropriate now," bassist Tony Kanal tells Billboard.com. "We feel absolutely acceptable about arena calm again, and I do accept that's activity to advance to a actual aggressive almanac as anon as we're done with this tour."

Guitarist Tom Dumont adds that "the affidavit will be in the product, in what we produce, in the album. But I anticipate (the tour) was the appropriate move. The acceptable affair is we're arena calm and we're accepting fun...kind of recharging our aplomb and accepting ourselves to a abode area we're aflame to do it and hopefully Gwen abstracts out what to address about."

It was Sefani's accustomed writer's block during two sessions aftermost year that spurred No Doubt to go on the alley afore recording its aboriginal anthology back 2001's "Rock Steady." The tour, No Doubt's aboriginal in bristles years, kicked off May 2 and is appointed until Aug. 12 in Honolulu, but the accumulation isn't committing to a flat date aloof yet.

"I don't anticipate we'd do that to ourselves," Kanal says. "I'm abiding we're gonna appetite to decompress for a anniversary or so afterwards the tour, again aloof get on the buzz and say, 'Everyone ready? Is it time to get calm and alpha working?' We're absolutely not activity to put burden on ourselves. It's gonna appear back it happens."

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Kanal adds that expectations the accumulation would do some autograph on the alley accept accurate "over-ambitious," but he's befitting a carriageable recording flat on his bout bus "just in case article can happen."

"It depends on the album, but it usually takes us about a year" to record, Dumont says. "There's been a lot of agreeable ideas; really, the dry ancillary has been lyrically. The plan is to get to assignment in the abatement back we get home from the tour. We achievement to accept (an album) out some time abutting year, but I don't apperceive how continued it will take."

No Doubt has been taping and filming anniversary of its shows, and Stefani's brother Todd has been capturing offstage footage as well. But Kanal says so far there are no affairs -- yet -- for a alive anthology and/or DVD from the tour.

"It's a altered apple now," he says. "You attending out there and you can see so abounding bodies filming with their cameras nowadays. I can go on YouTube and see aftermost night's appearance if I appetite to. It's out there. A full-production DVD is...not article we've talked about for this tour, but it would be nice to certificate it on a absolute level."