New album before the end of March 20XXX!

I have noticed a LOT more dirt (be it overdrive, distortion or fuzz in different songs) over the last 10? years, or even further back. Listen to the bass intro of The Kiss from Trilogy and it's dirty as. 

I wonder how this works then? Simon's been using a lot more dirt on his bass for years now, in places where album versions don't have dirty bass parts (such as on Disintegration (the song, not the album)) but now he plays it with dirt, all of the time. 

So, has he decided off his own back that he likes the dirt better, and anyone else be damned, or did the band say "oh here you go Simon we got you this ODB-3, have a crack on it" and everyone agreed to it cos it sounds PHAT, or did Robert slyly or overtly say "we're doing dirty bass now".... So many questions..

Given RS wrote all of the songs on this, and presumably the next two records, did his writing veer into the production of elements such as what type of dirt to put on bass, guitar etc.... 

So. Many. Questions. 

Well hi everybody. I love the new album and I even like the way the CD is mixed. I like the fuzzy guitar and bass sound and the loud drums. In fact, I used to hate Jason’s drumming and his drums are my favorite part.

If anyone can do it, I believe in my heart of hearts that you can do it!

Uh oh…… I hope I haven’t started a thing. You all leave steve alone!!

ohhhhh I feel bad now. For real, not even kidding.

For this album, I would have asked RS to go back to some of the Ex-Cures from the 1980s and asked for help composing and arranging the instruments.

I could make a playlist of the weakest tracks from the mid-80s, and I'd rather listen to those on repeat. Sorry.

Tracklist:

Side A - A Fragile Thing (RS24 Mix)
Side B - A Fragile Thing (RS24 Remix)

Nice, but only on vinyl.
And both versions are new mixes?