Sexy selybrity Avril Lavigne's fourth album stripped down

The Napanee-born singer says she's taking a more serious, stripped-down approach to her fourth album, tentatively slated for a November release.

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"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."

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Lavigne's husband Deryck Whibley produced eight of the album's projected 12 tracks, half of which she says she wrote alone. On the other half, she's been working with former bandmate Evan Taubenfield and songwriter producer Butch Walker, who co-penned her 2004 single My Happy Ending.

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"I'm kind of just keeping it in the family," said Lavigne, whose last album was 2007's The Best Damn Thing. "I started this record off really slow, just writing songs at home on my piano.

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I didn't work with a ton of people this time.

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