Part I Here.

Things are in ever sharper focus. Now he’s convinced that they’ll be back in the studio by February, still anticipating a summer release.

And again, this strikes me as not that unusual. Because he’s preparing for it.

Here’s a twitvid from Andrew Cook, the content of which I will ignore for this analysis. (Although if you watch it for that, it’s quite adorable and genuine.)

The point here? He’s living at his brother’s house. He doesn’t play instruments. One can therefore assume that any and all performance-related equipment is Dave’s. And it looks like this room (which I won’t call a studio because that would mean more acoustic sealing and rugs) has quite a bit of it.

He has a small amp, a keyboard, and a fairly expensive piece of drum production software. The guitars will probably come home when he does. (And I’m sure there’s some nice piece of audio interface equipment to get all of that onto the computer.)

Assume that the band keeps writing, then gets off the road sometime in December, and everyone returns home. Cook mucks around through December and early January, and probably brings back five (or even more) “rough demo” songs before the band goes into the studio. They continue to write and record over the next few months, and then go for mastering and post production in early-mid summer.

Again, I just don’t think it requires superhuman skills to go from where they are to an album in the next 10 months or so.