The deal will see Cooking Vinyl handle the distribution, project management, marketing and promotional services of the album and Palmer will retail control of the project and 100% of all rights.

Theatre Is Evil will be released globally through Palmer's own label 8ft Records with Cooking Vinyl being the singer's "boots on the ground" in European territories.

The new album will, of course, be crowd-funded using more than $1 million raised from the artist's barnstorming Kickstarter campaign.

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