Seemingly like everything else big in popular culture, Angels and Airwaves’ new album “The Dream Walker” will be released next week on Dec. 9.

The album, however, is not the only thing the band is putting out that day. In a recent interview with Billboard, founder and lead singer Tom DeLonge said that the album is “one component of an overarching concept.”

The band has recently branched out into more forms of media when telling their stories, with a feature film being released with their album “Love.” DeLonge hopes to continue to turn the group into more than a band, and an overall “art project” with a comic book, a novel, an anime short and a feature film all following the character Poet Anderson that is the inspiration and story behind the album.

Poet Anderson is a lucid dreaming character that is DeLonge’s version of a new Peter Pan “just without the green tights.” DeLonge and the band’s members have always been interested in deeper meanings and stories, and are now delving into the concept of dreaming and how you could be experiencing another life in those dream worlds.

Four singles have been released by the band to preview the album, including “Tunnels,” “Paralyzed,” “The Wolfpack,” and “Bullets in the Wind,” with a trailer for the animated short on their website. DeLonge is excited for the project to roll out, but he told fans that, “Poet Anderson is just the beginning. What we are launching at the end of next year is just as big and completely different, and just as much has gone into it. So there’s a lot of work to do.”