Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct

[negative1]

this is by far the quietest release, and discussion i've seen for a new album from them.

but then again i didn't really pay attention when barking, or barbra barbra we face a shining future came out either. i did pay attention all through drift, and i dont think that will ever be matched again though.

since this is a traditional album, it was always going to be more low-key.

later
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[TheBang]

Originally Posted by negative1

this is by far the quietest release, and discussion i've seen for a new album from them.

Yeah, as mentioned, traditional web forums have been largely supplanted by social media and other outlets. But I can add some numbers to it. In the run-up to Barking, we were averaging about 80-100 (logged-in) users visiting the forums per day. For Barbara Barbara, it was about 30-50. For Drift, on each weekly release date (Thursday), we'd get about 40 users. It picked up to about 50 users when the whole Series 1 release date arrived. For Strawberry Hotel, so far, it was about 40 users on the announcement day, and about 25 users per day since then.

That said, I think part of the problem is that there just isn't much to discuss about the album yet. Even on Reddit and the socials and Discord, there just isn't much to discuss yet, after the initial comments about the artwork and tracklisting and such. We've already heard and discussed the songs that have been released so far over the past year.