New for 2022

[Robson]

Oh no! I thought about 2022 

[GIUMK]

In 2023???

[quizzaciously]

Hey, microphones doesn't move on their own, you need some time to play with their placement

[Robson]

I hope it will be January 2023.

[Jules]

March, April 2023, more likely April.

[Robson]

But why??? So long
This is over a year of waiting

[rmarques821]

Unless... Mark is planning to tour after the release of the album and wants the world to be completely Covid-free!

[Jules]

But why??? So long
This is over a year of waiting

Because the places where cds and lps had to be made are very busy and have a lot of delays because lack of materials.

[quizzaciously]

But why??? So long
This is over a year of waiting

Because the places where cds and lps had to be made are very busy and have a lot of delays because lack of materials.

Absolutely, and this chip shortage drives me nuts... The world is crazy so no wonder the date is pushed way back. Rather than announce it and then postpone it, just put it more than a year later. Wise choice! I'll not talk about that you don't need to produce physical albums in 2022 anymore, but anyway... I think they will still keep making CDs even a thousand years from now it seems.

[TheTimeWasWrong]

The release strategy was always based on touring, but now that there won’t be any tour, and the session only takes 4 weeks, 2023 seems very far away. 

[Robson]

The release strategy was always based on touring, but now that there won’t be any tour, and the session only takes 4 weeks, 2023 seems very far away.

Exactly 

[Jules]

The release strategy was always based on touring, but now that there won’t be any tour, and the session only takes 4 weeks, 2023 seems very far away.

Probably when they went to hire the production plants for cds and lps they found out those were so busy that it won't be possible to have the record made until next year.

It's happening to most artists these days.

[GIUMK]

But what if the reason is that this year he will publish something in the name of Dire Straits?

[Jules]

But what if the reason is that this year he will publish something in the name of Dire Straits?

who knows.

 

[skydiver]

Given how MK enjoyed recording and crafting his albums in the past a release of his next solo album in 2022 was never realistic.
I had to chuckle at TK's Henrik Hansen-like line "no release date is available but it is likely to be towards the end of this year at the earliest".
After recording sessions are over MK likes to take (maybe too much) time to fiddle around with mixing, correcting test pressings etc.
I had small hopes that things would be different this time when in March 2020 he posted "I aim to be back in the studio recording songs as soon as possible". I hoped he would have sensed and realised how much people craved for new music from him in these scaring covid times.
But it turned out just about everything else musicwise (charity CD, contributions, etc.) was more important than recording his own songs for his next solo album. And when they postponed the recording sessions last autumn it was clear the album is on the back burner and won't see a release in 2022.
So unfortunatelly a much needed and longed for help in troubled times is still a year away...