The album will be ready in March, but also mixing, cover and etc. Under good circumstances, the album could be released before July.
All I can say is that it was totally bulls**t to release the Album in September and then start the Tour in late April the next year.
The Gap was too big.
The Tracker schedule was way better than that.
Touring directly after Album release is strategically better imho.
So I hope he does USA this year and starts in Europe next... yeah : April, cannot Imagine a european tour in Feb or March.
Maybe he finally adds Australia in that period. Makes sense and is long overdue