Yeah, you have such great insight !!! Iβm thinking the silver cord is our tie/tether to the spiritual world. PDA is about death, destruction, and bringing post apocalypse. By connecting to the silver cord/ the earth/ the thing that connects us all together, we can heal the wounds of destruction and come together to fight the dragon before it turns into the post apocalypse. Sliver cord is about the thing that powers our core and rebirths the Phoenix from the ashes.
Iβve got a feeling the Barcelona record fair surplus will be hitting the EU Gizzverse soon. . The past drops have always been about 6-8 weeks after the fair so that puts us right in line for next week, possibly around The Silver Cord drop.
Be prepared and vigilant if you are wanting a supercell 7β!
Iβm pretty happy these days with just having a single playing copy for each of their studio albums rather than the completionist approach, but something is compelling me this time to go one each of the standard and extended mixes if the price is not too extreme.
It seems they are recognising that the US is really the main market for multiple different colour editions anyway, I think AU/EU have only had one version for the last few releases now.
Per the sources in the OP I doubt this will be the next album. We know they have had at least two proper recording sessions since PDA, and Lucas said they will start recording the instrument swap album soon. So depending how long they sit on everything, we could realistically get two more albums before this one.
The quote that stood out to me is that this is the first fully analogue recording since Sketches Of Brunswick East! Analogue vs. digital doesnβt really concern me, but this is a very interesting project to get a tape recorder for considering they jammed it.