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Actually, I hadn't even listened to the music yet. It was more the oddity of that statement that caught my eye. I do plan to listen to those Black Dress clips when I have a chance. But seriously, there really is more than a lifetime's worth of genuinely good music in the world to not have to suffer through partially good material. And that's even allowing for differences in taste.

Whhyyyy????? If 51 years on the planet has taught me anything, there's more than plenty of good/good music than to be bothered with bad/good music. What next, admiration for Stryper bass solos?

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Spoiler: The last 3/5ths of the doc is dedicated to Tomorrow's Harvest.

I thought something didn't look quite right....

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Numerology can prove anything. sign = 19,9,7,14 sean = 19,5,1,14 rob = 18,15,2 (rob) 18+15+2 = 35 (sig) 19+9+7 = 35 (sean) 19 - (5+14) = 1 (n) 'n' is 1 letter of 'sign'. 'n' is also the last letter of 'sign' and also the last letter of 'sean'. Conclusion = Rob is responsible for 3/4 of the tracks of Sign, Sean is responsible for 1/4. Furthermore, Sean is responsible for the last track. Mystery solved. edit: - OOPS, bad math. Sean equals '0', and is thus responsible for nothing, but inspired the last track. edit 2: OR, 19/(5+14) = 1, so maybe Sean did do something. I really need to lay off the coffee for the day.....

Right. And even if, technically, only one has a hand in the creation of a particular track, the other still is giving approval of that track's inclusion on the album. If one of the two came into the studio with a 20 minute recording of a Chris Squire-ish base solo, I'm guessing it would be suggested that that track might be better on the next Keith Rowe/Mike Patton and guests collab.

But, 'Rochdale Groove' could be oh so tight.

Did someone say solo albums?

Poppycock. We already got that, more or less, with NTS, particularly if you acknowledge that the >MACHINES< are singing..... So naturally, being that SIGN is forecasted to be a radical departure from that prior style, the new album is more likely to be a folk/thrash/ska album, albeit in an abstracted form. Like, duh.

I know, I know. It >is< fun to dream the big dreams.

I'm sure they have a file cabinet or three full of 'prepped' stuff that never got released. Until I have a link to buy it's not real. Just to be clear, a search for your quoted quote, "we just prepped 2 albums", only turns up your post. I assume you're referring to the comments, "we just prepped an album, btw" "two actually". Which, yeah, I do consider vague and far from real or a committal. Could be the 2 prepped albums got condensed into one finished product. Who knows? Sorry to piss on the rainbow. Maybe I'm just in a covid funk. Maybe I just feel it's more satisfying to be skeptical and then delighted, rather than endlessly hopeful and endlessly let down?

Oh yeah, that vague comment from earlier this year. Well, if we do get a second album, awesome sauce. 'Til then I say it's vaeporwaer.