In a December update to the last post, I did some analysis on the total length of Distance over Time. I’ve decided to spin that off into its own post, and while I’m here I thought I would try to identify whether there truly is a relationship between album length and album quality.

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With Distance over Time finally revealed and the hype machine starting to whir, I’m seeing a lot of people speculating about when to expect the tracklist and when the first single might land.

There are a lot of vague rules of thumb (“the promo cycle takes about three months, right?”), but I thought the best way to get a sense of what we might expect would be to lay it all out.

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