as a long-time lurker my take on this is that, having read many of the excellent bocpages interviews (kudos to Fredd-E for all his hard work), new music will be ready when it's ready. the recent social media activity including Instagram and the YouTube pioneer plaque is brilliant and (I think I'm right in saying?) something which didn't happen between TCH and TH. we no longer have working, visable BoC websites to browse, so how else would the bros communicate with/goad the fan base?
let's all remember that although we're approaching 8 years since the last studio album, since 2016 we've had three remixes plus an instrumental, the Peel Session release which included previously unreleased XYZ, a full Bandcamp page set up AND the SxT in 2019 - not a bad level of output in the space of 4 years, in my opinion, and it's certainly a substantial amount of music compared to the gap between TCH and TH (Trans Canada Highway aside) if that makes sense?
for all the talk of recent social media activity, the Sometimes remix, for example, has never been acknowledged on their social media accounts at all. the video was randomly dropped on YouTube and has 80k views. other than that you have to buy the 12" like I have (which I would recommend everyone to do by the way) in order to hear their latest output. it's just hidden on YouTube, with no press release, tweet or big announcement.
i guess what I'm trying to say is let's all enjoy this ride while we can, keep ourselves entertained with our different and wacky theories while at the same time respect one another and the bros. as μasch said many pages back, none of us know Marcus and Mike personally. And as Marcus said in the excellent protect & survive interview in 2005 : "if there's no apparent facts or information about you, then what happens is stuff just floods in to fill that gap, and very often it's basically a flood of bullshit that fills in your silhouette. And we've really suffered from that."
https://bocpages.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive_(interview)2021 has already proved to be a crazy year for music, yes we've lost Daft Punk but My Bloody Valentine are back with (supposedly) two new albums and numerous reissues/represses, and on Warp two sleeping giants in Sterolab and Seefeel are also re-releasing old material with some new bonus tracks thrown in there as well. so let's be optimistic for the future and enjoy it.
sorry for the essay but I'm looking forward to becoming more active and joining you all on this BoC journey!