New album before the end of March 20XXX!

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Yes it's going to be difficult to finish an album in February when they are due on tour March 14th.
Also have past history of this during the 4got album tour of 2008.

Confidence will be low after the mixed reactions to the last two albums, 4:13 and the self titled. So Robert will be nervous releasing something new because it's been 18 years since their last classic album Bloodflowers.

It's a massive move and pressure for the band, this new album has to be creatively brilliant which I'm sure they are capable of.

However Robert's sole job of tracklisting choices for albums has not always been great on recent albums. I hope the others get more input this time.

Absolutely, Robert needs to be concentrating on getting these lyrics all ready for February album recording.

But there's a good chance he's just doing the audio for this Hyde park thingy. Like we really need yet another concert of all their usual gig songs. Hydepark was a good gig but nothing special setlist wise.

The new album is far more important than any of the other projects and should be taking preference.

Oh yeah those vocal effects, definitely needs to cut down on that reverse reverb (vocal arriving before the line) and having the last vocal say at the end of every song

Yeah a good producer is needed, the last two albums don't sound great production wise and too compressed

Oh and don't go over the top trying to get too many songs on the album which wms and 4:13 suffers from.

It worked with kiss me but in those days every song egg Robert laid was golden, he was incapable of writing a bad song in the 80s.

Quality over quantity, I'd take a 8-10 tracks new album like their 80-85 output with zero filler.

And make sure you include "please come home"!!! Love that track.

I think there is danger in expectations. In saying that, shouldn’t we all hope for glory and beauty? It’s a slippery slope, on a knife edge with long falls either side, and a rocky, snake and glass filled bottom......

Let’s face it, the facts are what they are, the last few records have not been of the grandeur that fans have expected or experienced, and we can only hope for what lots of us consider “an improvement”.

hmmmm... I hate to say this, but I'm not sure that they have the capability to write an album's worth of exemplary material, be it musically and/or lyrically. To me, any song on Disintegration (except Love Song) is top shelf material, the same goes for every song on Wish, except for Doing The Unstuck, but that has some amazing guitar work on it via Porl so it almost gets there, but if I review the last two records, then it's not a case of "every song's a winner" like on previous records. They feel rushed lyrically, sonically, they miss the mark, and they feel unfinished. 

I certainly don't feel that same "oh my Bob!, this is amazing!" when I put on "The Cure" or "4:13 Dream". Sure, there are songs on both records that make my jaw drop (ha, i accidentally wrote "draw" there earlier, instead of "jaw" as in "dropping one's drawers (pants) lol), such as "Anniversary", or "It's Over", but overall, those records are "make a playlist of the best songs" albums - which is a shame, tarnishes the legacy of the band, and makes me wonder what the deuce is going on.

This follows on in the new songs. Listen to "It Can Never Be The Same", and then immediately listen to "Step Into The Light".  Surely you can't tell me that both of those songs are of equal calibre. Maybe to some people they are, I know people who have told me that they think all of the songs on 4:13 Dream are excellent, and it's ONLY the production that suffers, rendering the album less than a 10/10, so I'd need to respectfully disagree with them on that, and with anyone who says that these two new songs are as good as each other, therefore I'm tipping another record that's made up of 1/2 excellent songs, and the other half ideas that need to be fleshed out, and / or reworked completely, all topped off with lyrics and melodies that are running at 70% greatness. 

I hope to Bob, I'm wrong, there is nothing more I want than an 11/10 record, and nothing less I don't want (?) than a poor record, so I hope, and I wait.