Albarn continued recording while on the road during the Humanz Tour, and mentioned in an interview with Q Magazine in September 2017 that he was planning on releasing the material as a future Gorillaz album.
During a September 2017 concert in Seattle , the band debuted a new song, “Ode to Idaho”, which was later included on the album as “Idaho”. During the performance Albarn stated it had been written in the days prior.
In September 2017, drummer Matt Cameron told Billboard that he and the other surviving members of Soundgarden had yet to make a decision about the future of the band following Cornell’s death. He was quoted as saying, “I don’t think we’re ready to say anything other than … Kim and…
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They then headlined at the Summer Sonic Shanghai 2017 festival on August 26.
On August 25, 2017, the band released We Don’t Need to Whisper – Acoustic EP , which contained acoustic renditions of the first four songs from their first album. DeLonge stated that he “wanted to give the fans something while the band works on the soundtrack to the upcoming Strange…
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The North America leg of the tour kicked off in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 23 August, at the USANA Amphitheatre.
Two days later on August 17, many people who had pre-ordered the vinyl edition of the album received a CD (limited to 500) in the post that contained an album in its entirety, named Science Fiction , compressed into one 61-minute long track.
On August 15, 2017, the band announced on Instagram that their fifth LP would be released on vinyl in October 2017.
On August 14, 2017, Atlantic Records divested the Lemonheads’ back catalog to Fire Records , which released several of the band’s albums in the UK.
which was released on August 11.