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How have you started your New Year? Broken resolutions, more hangovers and less cash? Standard. But spare a thought for those bands who have so far spent 2014 stuck in a studio working on their next album, stressing out whether it can live up to their previous big release...
Sometimes they are albums no one wants (ahem! Guns n Roses) or sometimes the bands have given details on LPs everyone is desperate for but who are taking their sweet time (Maccabees we are looking at you). We've rounded up the statements and confirmations from the biggest bands on the scene and how their new music is shaping up. It's all many months away, but here's what to expect from some very big albums indeed...