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So based on rumours this summer about the style of release for SoE - traditional method, single then album 1-2 months later, rather than surprise album all at once - and based on NLOTH's similar release timing...
I'd say earliest we'll hear something is January, maybe we'll get a magazine preview in December if they're not going for a surprise announcement. Single in january, album in march.
Ugh, that's potentially 3 months of waiting before potentially being told "it's looking like late summer, early autumn 2017". I hope it doesn't come to that... It all depends on how much work they feel this album needs.
Just release a final goodbye single and have a farewell tour
As far as i can tell, they are all in different parts of the world at the moment. they don't seem to be too stressed...i think that bodes well in that the album is just about done...but then again, i've been saying that same damn thing for months now.
Whatevs........
My educated guess is this... they had the album done and ready, played it to a few people, decided there wasn't a "hit" there... passed the album along to a bunch of DJs in search of a hit (see the Ryan Tedder quote about rock bands not having a hit without a DJ)... liked what they heard, but then started trying to play it live and realized they couldn't, and are now back to the drawing board trying to figure out how they can capture the "vibe" of the DJ mixes but in a way that is just the 4 of them and Terry playing.
See ya in 3/4 years.
I don't buy the tour rescheduling excuse. Acts sell tickets so far in advance now that it doesn't matter. Coldplay just put tickets on sale a year in advance. I bought my wide Adele tickets for her December birthday last year and the show was a month ago. It doesn't matter anymore.[emoji38]
Or they re scheduled the tour from fall 2016 to spring 2017.... just to buy more time to finish SOE.. and it is basically done..... the second disc with all these remixes for the deluxe version has to be finalized....
My educated guess is this... they had the album done and ready, played it to a few people, decided there wasn't a "hit" there... passed the album along to a bunch of DJs in search of a hit (see the Ryan Tedder quote about rock bands not having a hit without a DJ)... liked what they heard, but then started trying to play it live and realized they couldn't, and are now back to the drawing board trying to figure out how they can capture the "vibe" of the DJ mixes but in a way that is just the 4 of them and Terry playing.
See ya in 3/4 years.
wide Adele .
Damn thumbsThat's just not nice Mr. Headache in Trump Tower
Is it possible the unremixed version we heard was done by Kygo as well? We don't know for sure what state TBT was in when U2 handed to him, before he worked on it.
Anyway, I think I agree with you, there's more pointing towards only finishing touches being done rather than drastic overhauls (for now, at least).
that to me implies it was either unfinished, or something they weren't happy with?
We've had plenty of dates in the past. They've blown right through them.
Guys, we're not getting Songs of Experience.
We've been played every single time since ATYCLB.
I'm going to start going through life under the assumption that no new U2 music will ever come out. If we get something, great. If not, I already accounted for it.
Throwback to when the rumors were a speedy 2014 follow up before Christmas. What a joke.
Or it means it's like what TCB was to SOI, it just didn't fit.
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Is it possible the unremixed version we heard was done by Kygo as well? We don't know for sure what state TBT was in when U2 handed to him, before he worked on it.
I'm CERTAIN both versions of TBT we've heard are Kygo remixes.
It makes zero sense that U2 would play their own (unfinished) version and then play a Kygo remix.
How would that conversation go? Bono: "hey Edge, come over here a minute. I've got Kygo's remix of The Best Thing for us to listen to. But FIRST I'm gonna play that shit version we've already heard hundreds of times but didn't like"
Surely they were just listening to a couple of different mixes that Kygo sent them.
(especially if Adam's saying they're working up until christmas... that's only a couple months away).
He added: “We’re in the studio. We’re trying to get these 12 songs absolutely right and get them finished by the end of November, and then we can kind of enjoy Christmas.”
Nah. We won't.The fact that U2 handed something they didn't know what to do with to Kygo, doesn't mean it was finished. Nor does it mean that it will ever be finished and published. They could very well have decided that TBT should be a collaboration, a one off. It could also end up on SOE. We don't know. But we might know more after Kygo's show and release.