At the start of 2020, Billy revealed that he'd been working on Cyr for over a year, and had 21 songs at the time... so at least one track just didn't make the cut.
“This is the first album since the album that came out in 2000, Machina, where me, James [Iha] and Jimmy [Chamberlin] worked on something for a very long time," he said. "It’s got a greater conceptual base, and it’s probably a wider swath of music. The last one was kind of like, ‘Let’s just jump in, record some stuff real fast, and let it be what it is…’ so I’m excited about this, because we’re kind of back in the lane of taking a risk, and trying to bring something new to the table, as opposed to just aping what we’re known for.”
Cyr will be released on November 27 via Sumerian Records.