Isn't Coldplay's new un out end June/start of July? Summer release anyway, I would've thought that will have quite a bit to do with it. Not just because neither record company will want a 'battle', but because record companies don't like big releases competing with each other, especially now that sales are said to be falling, so they'll be wanting to maximise the sales of both records by giving them a good gap between releases.

why is the wait so long??? uhh, they just finished mixing, which means the next step is small tweaking which takes a bit and then mastering, which can take a while to do a good job. So that's a couple or a few months, then you have promotion and pressing and album art to do and take care of all that stuff. That could tack on another month or two max. So that's April, May, June, July, and some-most of August covered ...it may take either longer or shortter to do all this- so they could probably release it in August but i guess they found a date in sept that seemed perfect and to give them a buffer in case mastering takes a longer time or other things run long. So that's why it's coming in September

Im glad Oasis are taking their time with this one. Its a huge album and i want it to be perfect. Plus, it will give me something to look foward to all summer long

I have it on good authority that Oasis want the album released mid-May but they have encountered a major problem in that the only recording made is with Frank Lomax and he wont give it back