Food for thought from a fellow contributor:
There was mention that mixing was taking place while the band were in the United States. I'm not sure where. I reckon a producer must have been involved somewhere, or at least a mixing engineer alongside The Verve. Otherwise its a pretty big risk for a record company to take. Perhaps Chris Potter may have been involved, and even more possibly Youth as he has just finished the new Futureheads album, so he would now be available. Who knows?Overall, its now gone very quiet on album number four details.
They've probably had a few days at Olympic too; this was the studio where they recorded most of the cuts on Urban Hymns over a ten day jam session.