Nadine Coyle has said that Girls Aloud were always "very separate" when recording their albums, in an interview published today.
Coyle told The Guardian that she always recorded the initial vocals at the request of their producer Brian Higghins.
"From day one. Well, maybe not day one, but definitely week two," she said.
"And that's how it worked from then onwards. The girls just left me to it. And then they would come in and do their parts, and they would have their holidays."
She continued: "We were very, very separate. We didn't know it any other way."
Coyle said that the group were ready for a break following their fifth studio album Out of Control.
"After the last record, it was the right time to go and do our own individual things, and then come back together when the time was right, if the time was right," she said.
Coyle will release her debut solo single and album next month.
