Keith Urban Bringing ‘Sexy’ Back?

Keith Urban topped the country -- and pop -- charts with his 2009 album, 'Defying Gravity' and it's almost a sure thing he'll do it again when the follow-up to that smash album is delivered. There's no word yet on a release date for the new record -- Keith is in the process of selecting songs for the disc, and it's still too soon to tell what kind of collection it will be once it's complete.

"We recorded a lot of songs and we're deciding which ones may constitute a new album," Keith tells the Burlington Free Press newspaper in Vermont. "At this stage, I would say it's not a radical departure. I can't even put my finger on what it is now. It's just a new record [laughs]. It's perhaps a bit deeper. It's a sexier record.

"I love boy/girl songs," Keith adds. "They're timeless."

Earlier this year, in an exclusive interview with The Boot, Keith acknowledged that marriage (to actress Nicole Kidman) and fatherhood (their daughter Sunday Rose turned two in July), has certainly had an effect on him, even if those topics, especially fatherhood, haven't directly found their way into his music thus far.

"Sunday hasn't appeared in a literal way in a song just yet," Keith told us at the time, "but certainly becoming a father deepens everything in my life, and that's apparent in the songs."

While fans await the release of a new album from the superstar, he's also waiting to find out if he'll be a winner at the CMA Awards in November. Keith is nominated for Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year.