Re: New album speculation 2024
 

Yeah, I also don't think that vinyl manufacturing could be the case of no album announcement yet. They could drop the album digital any time and then later the physicals, but I think they don't have an album yet.


But I really don't understand what was the point of releasing 2 singles (Red and Denver) years before an album. Or they remain as single only tracks.

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

maybe they wont be on the album.

but as you said, they could just be standalone tracks.

its not like they didn't do that way back when they started.

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Re: New album speculation 2024
 

Itd be a shame if Denver Luna wasnt on an album. Colour Red however? We can skip that one :P

I could say the same for NUXX and Rez I guess.

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

If it's being released in coordination with another label again - Caroline, Cooking Vinyl, whoever - the vinyl lead time won't be quite that bad. Generally the smaller the artist/label, the longer they have to wait, and big customers get queue jumps (I know FSOL releases seem to take around four months; my last album on a tiny label took nearly a year). Plus, if it's announced two or three months before release - as is usually the case - then the manufacturing time will mostly be eaten up by that period anyway. They could finish the mastering today and still announce it in September and release it in November if they wanted.

I'm wondering if they maybe thought the album was near completion and then decided to go back and rework it a lot.

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

Yeah, I don't think vinyl manufacturing is the issue. The've successfully done numerous single releases over the past 2 years with UMG handling the vinyl pressing.

I think the simple answer is that they're just not ready to do an album release yet. They're typically pretty methodical about the album releases, so I'm sure they have a plan for what they want released and when, and vinyl manufacturing is already factored into that.

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

Rick said in the drift notes that music is never finished, it is merely "getting ready"

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

obviously they could do digital/CD first but a lot of bands shy away from that because if you don't have your record ready from the first week it tends not to sell so well. or so I've heard from a number of artists who pushed their release date for that reason. and yes they have gotten some stuff pressed in the meantime but maybe that was okay because they were small orders. all just speculation of course. the truth is they probably don't really think in terms of "albums" anymore and are just making tracks unencumbered by the thought. but I'm sure one will come eventually.

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

The Underworld logo already changed from the previous 2 singles. I think it's a bad indication for those 2 singles as maybe they won't be on an album. :/

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

Where's the new logo? Seems to be the same one on underworldlive.com

Re: New album speculation 2024
 

Instagram stories. Karl showed new t-shirts with new logo.