I thought this was about TSR   

Dear God no! When any artist sticks so rigidly to their original formula, they very quickly become parodies of themselves. Look at Heathen Chemistry, or any of U2's albums of this century, or Coldplay's sorry state of today. They try so, so, so hard to be Morning Glory, The Joshua Tree, or to appease the masses (or what they think the masses want), but instead fail epically because they've lost their original magic.

Let's face it: the best way to stay fresh and new is to try something different. If you don't, you'll fall out of fashion, and some new kind of music will be considered "cool" instead of yours. Some of the most acclaimed records of all time, Sgt Pepper, Pet Sounds, Achtung Baby, Kid A, Heroes, Remain in Light, etc, are praised because each of these artists had already established a signature sound for themselves, a formula they could have adhered to forever, yet they decided to push themselves into new territory, and were able to create brilliant records in the process. Noel knows the value of experimentation, he's tried to before with SOTSOG. But because that record tanked, he quickly scurried back to the comfort zone and created the worst album of his career. It's this lack of adventure which will result in absolute shit like Heathen Chemistry, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, or A Head Full of Dreams, and put you in the fast-track to becoming what is known as a has been.

Chasing Yesterday is a step down from NGHFB 1, let's be honest. It's a good record, but the singles are shit and the record is a bunch of tracks that don't belong with each other.

Noel needs to do two records : one fully acoustic and one fully electric, but very raw, not overproduced.

no need for album #3. He can always call Liam back...

This is an attitude I just don't get. How can you approach something you know nothing about with expectations, positive or negative? Besides, I really don't understand your reasoning. What does She Must Be One Of Us have to do with the new album? It's a demo from the DBTT era which luckily got discarded. And HC is the absolute opposite of experimentation. As a matter of fact, it's an album where they tried to stick to the "winning formula", and look how it turned out. Moreover, I don't see how a "damn fine run" of albums (not that DBTT and DOYS are that great in my opinion) implies an impending clunker. That's the gambler's fallacy.

Want to make your life easier? Stop worrying about things that might happen and just approach the new album with an open mind. But what if it turns out to be the worst album ever? There's plenty of great music out there to keep you busy until Noel releases good music again.

I'd prefer an album with safe, but good songs over an album with weird, experimental shit that I'll maybe listen to once or twice, but then will forget about.

Weird experimental shit doesn't necessarily have to be bad though. To me the genre doesn't matter, as long as the songs are good.

That. I mean, he's almost 50 now, given the state of music nowadays, an album with 11 good songs would be enough. He's not gonna change the face of music now and we never expected it anyway. His music was always more about the soul (and shiiine), than the brain.

Give me a good melody with EAD chord progression over weird music anyday. Noel cant do it so he should stick to songwriting, he's actually still good at it.

tbh hes never really done a bad album per say, the worst is probably HC for me and the main problem with that on Noels side was the production and CY was much better than that.

Noels never going to release something really out there, he might mess about with it but I dont think he could ever get it to point of releasing it, he plays it too safe.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. Somebody comes to mind...

Well, he said the new material IS inspired by the late man, so..

Calling Mike Love! Stick to the "formula?" Please don't. We've been there, done that.
Over and over and over. I'd prefer a brain damaged album. I'd even accept a bit of
disco or rap on it. Of course if he turns out the kind of rubbishy weirdness Albarn is
into these days I'll sing a different tune. I thought CY was bland on every level (even
the album cover was a why bother affair). What I want is something you'll all hate,
40 minutes of chaos like the last minute of Stop The Clocks. Psychedelic punk noise.

What we'll get though is probably another grandfather pop rock workout where the
bonus tracks are more interesting than anything on the album.