Yes, it's a long gap betwen DTRW and 2023 but we should "discount" two years in that gap because of all the difficulties of the pandemic, for more than a year they were not able to work normally, just MK and Guy, so they were delayed not by their fault, also because of flight and travel restrictions, they were not able to gather the band in the studio, so that delay is also not his fault.
Guy says they are having a four weeks band sessions, that means that probably at the beguining of March they will have the recordings finished with the band, then they will have to start comping, overdubbing and mixing, and that can take probably march and spring, as when they are doing that, maybe they notice some songs need something extra and have to call musicians to add this or that, my guess is that on May they should have it ready, and then they have to send the recordings to Portland, for mastering, and when they have it back, listen to it and decide if it's ok (they returned that mastering to Portland with DTRW as they didn't like it), that means maybe June/July they have the master ready to send to the pressings factories, that we know are very busy, not only that, but also they don't release MK records at any random date, they look for good dates to release, commercially speaking, so maybe they lost the September slot and probably the December one, maybe they have to wait until March 2023. These are the dates when usually most of the big records are released, why? I don't know, I know many records get released at any times, so that's a mistery to me.
And not only this, but also I suspect that they have other projects we don't know, well, we know one, the Local Hero musical in London and the recording of the cd of it. They were about to start the recordings when the pandemic arrived and everything had to shut down, so they need to record and have it finished on time to sell it on London theaters while it's represented in any theater. We don't know yet if this will happen this summer or autumm, or next year, but I'm sure is something they have in their agenda.
These are just my guess, I strongly recommend you to ask Guy for more information, as any of you tend not to believe this kind of explanations, that are the logic I learnt from all that Guy has been telling us for years. So please, ask him and get first hand explanations.
By the way, the thread should be changed to NEW FOR 2023.
