So! I've been thinking about how it's been two weeks and we still don't have a tracklisting for Distance over Time, and I've been thinking about how we haven't had a single yet even though it feels like
ages since they announced it... so I decided to do a bit of research!
Presenting - the promo cycle timeline:
Basically, I've looked at every album since records began (/Systematic Chaos) and written down when they released a single, tracklisting, etc. My findings are as follows:
* It isn't
that unusual not to have a tracklisting yet. SC didn't have one for a couple of weeks, and DT12 took about a month before they confirmed anything!
* We probably shouldn't expect the first single until early January. There is
predecent for earlier singles, but in over half of cases, our first full song from the new album didn't arrive until at least 50 days after the reveal date.
That said, this is their first album with a new label, so all predictions are to be taken with a huge grain of salt!
I've gone into way more depth on
my blog, but those are the bits I thought were most interesting.