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…PAUL McCARTNEY continues to work with producer Greg Kurstin for a new album due in 2018. A song addressing the Trump question is expected to appear …LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM releases a new solo album in April …TRENT REZNOR’s working on a new Nine Inch Nails LP with co-producer Atticus Ross. He says they’re finding stimulation in the adventurousness of ’70s pop. “We’re not finding a lot of inspiration in current music in Top 40 radio,” he says. “We’re more inspired by what David Lynch did with Twin Peaks this year” …SLEAFORD MODS are recording album 10. “With these songs, the lyrics move them along,” says orator Jason Williamson. “It’s the real comedy lines that really sell an idea to me” …Produced by Ewan Pearson, and recorded with help from Warpaint and Corinne Bailey Rae, TRACEY THORN’s fifth solo album arrives in spring. “If 2010’s Love And Its Opposite was my mid-life album,” she says, “this album represents…a whole new ‘no fucks given’ phase of life” … JOHNNY MARR releases his third solo album in spring. It’s co-produced with keyboardist James Doviak and is informed by the reflective mental zone he inhabited writing his 2016 memoir Set The Boy Free …A new SCOTT WALKER album is expected by the end of 2018. He has previously said his last solo album Bish Bosch was the end of a thematic trilogy begun with 1995’s Tilt, suggesting new vistas may be explored … RAY DAVIES is working on second volume of 2017’s songtravelogue Americana. “It’s an homage,” says Ray, “relating to my journey as a person…”