Well, there's a lot to unpack here. Firstly, the initial Record Store Day release of this makes it pretty much exactly five years since the last entry to the environment series, Environmental, released for RSD 2017. That's a long time. And, before anything else, CD, digital and further vinyl copies will be available from FSOLDigital the week following Record Store Day. CD and digital will have bonus tracks. RSD will give you an opportunity to get the album early, and possibly as a limited edition (past RSD releases have been numbered), but the album will be widely available soon afterwards.
The title? Well, we've had Environments, Environment, Environmental, everything from 1 to 4 to Five and 6.5. But >e7.001 is a very, very odd one. There appears to be no direct mention of the full series on the front. In fact, the blurb effectively says that the album is called Rituals, which just happens to be part of the Environments series. So those few people out there still waiting for a new album with a standalone title, here it is. The art is incredibly different, following on from the modern graphic style of the Bandcamp Calendar Albums. It'll be interesting to see it up close. There's no sign of the traditional FSOL font on the cover, or even a 'The' in the band name.
No tracklist yet, but we'll probably get one quite soon. Whether there'll be CD/digital bonus tracks or not remains to be seen, although it's certainly possible. More news soon, no doubt!
