Good info Roo!
I noticed this:
Hiatus Kaiyote-Third album has been done for a minute they've just not released it because if they can't tour, they won't make money.
What's your opinion on what I posted earlier about bands/artists not putting out albums until they know when they can get back on the road?
It's all based on if the bands can keep an income stream or not. Bands like RHCP/Metallica/GNR are all corporations and only put out albums because they want to challenge themselves or make new music, they don't have to. And I love all those bands.
Hiatus Kaiyote had a unique situation; the band released Choose Your Weapon in 2015, toured, then the members all did side projects during the 2017-2018 period and they started working on their third album when the lead singer/guitarist was diagnosed with breast cancer and got a mastectomy in late 2018. They resumed the recording in 2019 and did a small tour and were finishing the album prepping for a tour with a few shows here and there (I saw them in late-2019) when covid hit.
They're not big enough to release an album as a single source of income but were on their way there so for them it makes sense to hold out until they can tour and promote it. They've been doing private streams and various side projects again but they haven't reached an agreement with Warner Publishing on when to release the album yet.
I hope it can come out at some point in 2020 it should. That band had so much momentum (think any of the big alternative bands circa 1989-90 about a year and change before the fall of 1991 explosion).