The pessimist in me says you’re right. The optimist in me (which accounts for about .01%) looks at what The Kills just did. They released 2 new tracks in late July and immediately sold them as a 7”. Today (about 4 weeks later) they announced a new album would drop in about 8 weeks, containing both songs. This allowed them to sell the 7” exclusively for a month and then include the songs as part of an album later, causing the fans to double-dip and thus boost physical product sales. If Guns followed this pattern, it’d make sense. Bait the hardcore fanbase into buying an exclusive 7” to capitalize on the mythical The General track and then announce a full length about 4-6 weeks later... double your sales on the physical product that will be essentially antiquated in a months time. If they went this route, an album announcement would come in late September for a late November release (8 weeks seems like the magic number re: lead time to release an album). But alas, that would make entirely too much sense.