I'd welcome the idea of a self-cover album only if it's something like Ballada where the songs pretty much all have the same instrumentals (barring a couple of them that were actually different) but new vocals
Anyway to me it seems really unlikely that a release in the first half of this year will be an original full album anyway... unfortunately the days where we got a new single every couple of months and could always expect a new album or maybe even two in one year are long gone
