It wouldn’t shock me if they dropped this all at once either. They’ve hinted a few times in the past (interviews etc) that they like the idea. The timeline of their typical album drop cycle definitely raises an eyebrow.
They posted a new playlist on Spotify with the title “……” and a red cover. The first letters of the song spell out “XOXO” X + Y - Coldplay O My Heart - Mother Mother Xanny - Billie Eilish Often - The Weekend Could be nothing, but I doubt it’s unintentional.
The past 2 days it’s been throwback tour update videos from 2007-2008. Nothing other than that. They aren’t even doing their daily show, Good Morning 8123. No hints or anything to what’s going on.
I was so damn hyped for Can't Stop Won't Stop to drop back in the day. I had just gotten my driver's license like a month and a half before The Way We Talk EP came out, so that thing had been a car stereo staple whenever I drove around. CSWS dropped the following summer and man it was just such a perfect summer record. That thing was literally the soundtrack to my pre-senior year summer.
CSWS came out during the summer before my high school senior year also. I knew of the band for a while, but I didn't really get into them much myself until later on during senior year. I saw them for the first time after graduating at Warped Tour 2009 which was a lot of fun.
Some social media talk that today’s pillar video is 3:19 and that date has been thrown around for some sort of release for quite some time now. We will see.
I just peeked at the website source code and there’s a lot of stuff about tour dates, variants, and shopping carts in there. I think it’s pretty clear what is happening at this point ;)