Speaking to British music weekly NME (April 26, 2007), Diamond revealed that a new album was to be called The Mix-Up . Despite initial confusion regarding whether the album would have lyrics as opposed to being purely instrumental, the Mic-To-Mic blog reported that Capitol Records had confirmed it would be strictly instrumental and erroneously reported a release date scheduled for July 10, 2007. (The album was eventually released June 26, as originally reported.) On May 1, 2007, this was further cemented by an e-mail sent to those on the band’s mailing list– explicitly stating that the album would be all instrumental:
Speaking to British music weekly NME (April 26, 2007), Diamond
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