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They said they spent a longer time than ever creating it and it's turned out to be their shortest record. I don't feel like they're readying another release - it seems like this one might have really took it out of them if they're losing bandmembers (if only in a 'live band' sense) along the way. They did cut Generation A off the album but that seems like it'll be forever a loosie - created for the time it was played - rather than a holdover to the next album.

The post I quoted was you saying "why can't headliners come back lower?" which isn't a complaint against what we (the stans) think but what the festival actually does. The last one to come back lower was Manics or someone like that a million years ago - a British band who were taking non-headline slots while headlining Glastonbury. If it happened all the time then people may be receptive but it's just your fantasy at the moment. And, as always, you've pulled the old "hey, I'm objective - you're delusional!" like you haven't just claimed to be the one true mind that knows the way of the Glastonbury lineup and are often caught plotting a festival shaped by your own ideals.

Anyway, Peter Gabriel contributes vocals on the song 'Unconditional II (Race and Religion)'

Because those bands still have lots of people who enjoy seeing them live and, quite importantly, you don't pick the lineup.

Who do y'all think the Kendrick fans at Glastonbury are? They're us!!!

As @FloorFiller said, they're at a place where they might not be the first port of call for Pyramid headliner but they're still gonna be chosen to headline plenty of other festivals so it'll just mean they don't play Glastonbury for a while. Stepping down the bill this year, or in the near future, is pretty much out of the equation. Arguably, nostalgia and their acknowledgement of it will drive up their demand like it does with most artists along a twenty-year cycle. Like when Bono put away Mr. Macphisto and when Bruce got rid of the "Other" Band. I could see them headlining again in the next ten years but probably towards the later half of that period (if they stick around, which I doubt).

I do agree and I admit it is a good avenue. People will have seen me saying that they should just make whatever they want and fuck the naysayers and Everything Now was actually great (it was) but a lot of the fans are getting to the age where we're looking back fondly at such a period in our lives hearing those songs for the first time and yeah, maybe treading old ground is a good thing. The tracklist suggests they're doing it in an interesting way as well. What you're feeling is what I expect a lot of fans will be feeling. While it's not their boldest statement, it should give most of us the warm fuzzies. Total heritage band move but they're nearly twenty years down the road now. It should bring people back in who might have rejected Everything Now and Reflektor, and I think their next tour will be more popular than the last. Besides, they kinda jumped on the indie rock Springsteen thing before anyone else, rose up the lineups and then ditched it for others to play with. Might as well come back and get what's theirs.

Billie Eilish pulls out and Arcade Fire step in?

Didn't recognise that Will's replacement in the video is Dan Boeckner from Wolf Parade. That's a pretty perfect fit. But I guess they're dabbed down for a couple of years then.

We're enjoying the new song and return of a band we like. Go away.

I feel like you may want to argue with anyone who says Pyramid headliner..?

I did actually see a rumour on Reddit about there being inner turmoil in the band and doubt cast over the Nigel Godrich produced album. Seems like it mighta been true after all - but we're getting an album at least!

He said THAT?

They were all distinct songs though, as @kingcrawler said. Not two essential parts of the same song.

Seems like their most pointed stab at 'stadium rock' they've ever done. Sounds quite like it could be a Killers song. But I fuck with that.

Hope I don’t end up stood next to him watching Macca.

Get a big long bit of string. The person going to the toilet holds one end, the person staying in the crowd holds the other. Ez game.

OH SHIT SON

America is not ready for Bad Boy Chiller Crew

For all the fans of the new stuff...

NPN link: https://uk-umg.com/forms/Underplay.html?t=1647002089 Can’t get to any of these, sadly. Hope the arena tour gets announced sharpish, what with the lack of competing UK festival shows to worry about.

Memories of the Age of Anxiety was also a name used for some 45 minute instrumental piece they released for Headspace or something, which is why the name might sound familiar. It’s not that though (the reason I checked it out, in hindsight it obviously wasn’t that). But yeah they’re both new with The Lightning. I really enjoyed Gen A but we heard that in 2020 so I would rather that isn’t on the album.

I just watched a clip of Age of Anxiety because of this and it’s pure synthrock. Get gutted.

She did some shitty things in the time between now and the Glasto set, like putting a delivery driver on blast on Twitter and expressed her adoration for domestic assault felon Chris Brown backstage at his show. And the plagiarism case too. It just kinda flew in the face of how great a person she seemed to be back in 2019. It's a bit odd because I'm sure, to most people, those incidents didn't even register and it shouldn't be enough to slide-tackle her run towards the big leagues, but things have certainly gone quiet on the Lizzo hype and her single last year landed with a thud. Maybe it's just because there's no album or massive banger to get excited about.

Metronomy? Yes, definitely, if they're on the Other Stage. They've played the Pyramid before so not the biggest stage they've done.