They've mentioned absolutely nothing about the style of the record, so I have no idea what you're getting this from Anyways, Brad's got a boss ass beard going on.
I still think we will hear a single in June, another one in September, and then an album release of November (if everything goes as planned). Since they just got to the process of choosing the "gold songs", we might have a single within about 2 months timing.
I have a feeling the lead single will drop in June/July. They can be quite confusing, though. They continue to say that they are early in the process, yet Mike wants Zane Lowe to come by the studio to hear new music. It seems contradicting to me. Maybe they want to drop a new song out of nowhere, similar to how they released GATS with just a brief tease a few days prior.
Yeah, I don't think that Shinoda reaching out to Zane Lowe in full view of the followers Twitter is anything less than deliberate. Maybe they're planning to do something small, unrelated to the album
Or it could be... y'know... just friends getting together once in a while. They are regular people after all.
But what it is the LP fanbase without extreme speculation and overanalysis of every single word the band members say?
I think so , but the good thing is that they pretty much confirmed that the album will come out before 2017 ( they keep saying <#LP2016 )