I wouldn't lose heart just yet
Cian was going to LA last week to record, we know Meat said Elllen and Karla would record a song with him (which seemed to delight many people) and something with Imelda.
Half the album will be Steinman songs which should please Steinman fans, I'd guess at least that number will be songs sung by Meat. Wasn't the plan for there to be 15 or 16 songs on the album? Any way you look at it there seems to me to be a pretty good album tucked in there for anyone .. and for me a really big one