I gotta say with the current events in his career of the last few years, this new album is maybe the one I'm the most curious about in a while. He's always done a pretty good job of being diverse within his musical sphere, with the right amount of 'playing it safe' and 'trying a new curveball', but The Future Bites did not quite land for a lot of people. Even as someone who was okay with the album, I thought it lacked really good songs, it was mostly just fine. But he had to take a big hit on the tour with covid and all, he went back to his safe zone and made a new PT album. A good one, but also quite safe, not necessarily breaking any new ground or anything. Not that you always need to. Sometimes after a miss, you just gotta do the work, get something out to change the word of mouth. New PT seemed to have gone over mostly well. At best, people really liked it, at worst it was another solid album by the band.
So yeah I'm quite curious about the next solo album because TFB tried a lot of new things, didn't quite land. C/C was more of a safe territory album that seemed to go over fairly well. I don't expect the solo album to be as safe, so I'm interested to hear how much from TFB carries over, if any at all. Is he gonna give up on that direction, or just take a new one?