Is a double album a possibility?

[LB]

Nice insight Stevie, it makes me wonder what they will do. I am just really happy they did the Spontaneous curation series, I feel like they saw what they fans wanted and really started to play a mix of everything rather than just recent stuff.

[gardenparty]

Slow Tune is a song I think they should and will keep around

I expect Circuital and Wonderful to be the ones we hear the most moving forward

I think they may hold on to Black Metal and Day Is Coming (occasionally)

I'd be ok if they gave the others a rest for a tour or two.

[kintante5]

I hope Victory Dance sticks around for their encores

[LB]

I don't know how to process that. "most excited"   

"next year" 

[oistheone]

Whoa!! Nice scoop!

This is gonna be awesome.

I'm actually kinda glad they took it easy on us this year. 2015 is going to be the Year of the Jacket. Savings begin now.

[johnnYYac]

[CHIMMJFAN]

Ahh so nice! I'll have to ask Patrick about this if I see him after his Spanish Gold show tomorrow night. Two records released at different times in the year or a double album? Two different themes? Think about the tour possibilities as well!

CHIMMJFAN

[EverythingChanges]

Ahh so nice! I'll have to ask Patrick about this if I see him after his Spanish Gold show tomorrow night. Two records released at different times in the year or a double album? Two different themes? Think about the tour possibilities as well!

CHIMMJFAN

I'm wondering the same things. Would they release two albums at the same time? Or release one and hold on to the other for awhile? Or actually just combine them into a double album? I really hope this(these) record(s) is(are) awesome. Give me a new epic song that blows my mind live and I'll be super happy!

So excited!

[EverythingChanges]

I guess there are 3 or 4 ways they could do it.

1. Just release it as a double album (like The Beatles' White Album or ELO's Out Of The Blue or Pink Floyd's The Wall...and several other bands who put out double albums back in the day).

2. Split them up into 2 separate albums (like Guns 'n' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II, which were released at the same time...if I remember correctly, or System Of A Down's Mezmerize & Hypnotize, which came out 6 months apart. Those 2 S.O.A.D. albums had special fold-out cardboard CD cases that could be slipped together into 1 double sized case.)

3. Just release 1 long album of new material and offer the remaining songs as bonuses for Roll Call members or as a special Record Store Day EP.

4. Just release 1 of the albums now, and save the other material for the next album.

I'm just glad they are feeling so positive about the material they have been recording.

I vote don't save the material for a later release. Put them out close to one another when the songs are still relevant to the band.  Also, it doesn't make much sense to release them six months apart. Wouldn't that make them do two tours? One to promote the first album, and one to promote the second?

[The Radar Watches Me]

A double album these days would be something very special. I hope they do it!

[bartel]

the big disappointment I think here is the next year part.

[Fully]

imagine if Circuital was a double album 

It is a double album -- double AWESOME.

I figured you'd get that one Crispy. I still remember the night that gem dropped and we had that ginormous long distance bill from the phone company cuz we listened to it together like 6 times!

Did you two not know about cell phones back in 2011?

[APR]

If they're all excited, then that likely means they'll want to tour all over the place to play it for everyone.  And I was happy to get a tentative date (although disappointed it's so many months away).

[grizzy]

  to "Most excited we've ever been"

to "early next year"



BTW, has any group ever not said how awesome the new album is going to be? It's always their best stuff...right? It would be awesome if a band said, "This new album is just meh. You probably won't like it cause we really don't."

[bartel]

to "Most excited we've ever been"

to "early next year"



BTW, has any group ever not said how awesome the new album is going to be? It's always their best stuff...right? It would be awesome if a band said, "This new album is just meh. You probably won't like it cause we really don't."

I think other things got in the way first off the americanarama tour and spanish gold also... yes every band is really excited about the material but as they should be. it's their baby. I'd be surprised if it wasn't something announced before the end of this year.

[manonthemoon]

Just my .02 but if the band wasn't excited about the record then they shouldn't release it at all since it probably won't have their true expressions on it.  I know a lot of bands change throughout the course of their careers and just because something isn't exactly the style an old fan likes, doesn't mean that the band shouldn't go in that direction, so as long as the band itself likes what it is doing.  That in the end should be all that matters.  Kind of like that do what you love attitude that really only works for some people in a perfect world.

I really hope to see some more info come out about this after the SG tour finishes up as it seems like they have been pretty tight lipped about it for the most part.

[Nikkogino]

Need.        New.         Jacket.       

[darkglow]

nikko i feel you.. i am suprised that the band has not released more small tidbits of info... something.. anything.. to pacify those of us eagerly waiting to see what direction these new songs will take the band.. instead we get rhetorical questions about One Big Holiday in Mexico like "mmj.. beach.. could it get any better than that?"

[darkglow]

this is the longest time i've been in the dark about mmj goings on's in my 10+ years of fandom

[dmooney99]

If they do do a double album i wouldn't mind if they did something like the Foo Fighters did for In Your Honor.  Half rock, half acoustic.  That could work out pretty well i think.