When Noel talked about it he said that it would not be an electronic album, so we shouldn't get our hopes up. Honestly, Noel hasn't been pitching this as experimental, sound-wise, but process wise. The idea that he's writing songs in the studio. However, David Holmes did say that people want Noel's songs to be more upbeat and less midtempo, and that we would get something like that on this album.

My hopes are that Holmes has these influences on Noel:

1. Creates more uptempo songs rather mid tempos, regardless of genre
2. That we get a clean mix and good production
3. And this could be most important. That Holmes has legitimate influence with the crafting of Noel's songs, and that he pushes Noel not to be crazy or think out of the box, but to at least heighten his standards, which includes lyrics. CY was Noel's weakest album next to HC lyrically. I'd love to see a return to form for him lyrically. Noel's music rarely changed, but his standards certainly did. Paul McCartney had a similar experience with Nigel Godrich for Chaos and Creation where Godrich had veto power on track selection, and had the ability to tell McCartney to re-write portions of songs. That kind of influence on here, could have the same effect for Noel that it had for McCartney imo.