fixed. as far as we know, they don't have a label to put it out yet, so who knows what the timeline looks like.
This feels like the closest we've been to a new album in a long time; I'll be happy whenever it gets here.
what's your take on how the timeline falls into place these days after they lock in a distributor? presumably they would wait to have a label in place for any album pressing + need time to plan PR and marketing.
also I'm listening to Silver Turns to Rust for the first time. holy cow this is so good; I think I assumed it was a greatest hits.
Depends who they go with and how diy and established the label is. I know one that they talked to that could probably do it in 2-3 or months depending on vinyl being out later. Or they could be super indie and go with someone I’ve never heard of/the MxPx route.
I can see them doing pretty decent first week numbers on the independent charts. "Car Song" showed that there's a higher level of interest than I honestly would have thought. Kinda wild that they've never really done a major label deal outside the Sony deal for So Long, Astoria. You'd think the follow up to that record would've been attractive. I'd love a wide-ranging podcast with Kris about his journey.
I think there's a podcast from 2018 or 2019 in which John Collura was the guest, and he does talk about how Capitol Records wanted a follow-up album to So Long, Astoria. Obviously Kris did not want that (and I'm glad we got Welcome the Night instead tbh)
Saw them with MxPx in DC last night and Kris confirmed, albeit very awkwardly, that he wanted the record to come out this year, but it's not going to happen. But they seemed excited to have the new album done and be working with a label (or potential label?)