Excuse me in advance, my reply is not going to be as optimistic as
Yoshiki I'd like it to be.
I don't think this so-called project will ever see the light of day and maybe that's not a bad thing. If Violet UK is anything like what we've seen during the reunion concerts, I don't think this is the kind of album I would buy, but maybe that's because I'm just not into trip-hop, or whatever VUK is supposed to be. He aimed high with that "blending the boudaries of fashion, music" and whatnot. The concept was never properly explained and all I've seen of it was synths and keyboards with a rather flat background female voice and a bunch of standard models walking on stage wearing very standard fashion pieces. Nothing about it was groundbreaking and I've seen better on fashion week runways, both fashion and music-wise. Kathie Wathever and Nicole Scherzinger are great singers, but VUK definitely didn't bring out the best in them. The 'I'll be your love" performance from the early 2000s that's been floating around on Youtube ever since is mediocre both in terms of lyrics and key/vocals. Yoshiki's piano playing is good, but he's known to pull much better than that. The religion/sex/butterfly/blue/roses/love song themes have been done to death and don't accurately reflect Yoshiki's remarkable ability to take tacky themes like that and compose masterpieces (see Rose of Pain, Art of Life, Dahlia, etc.) I fancied Mandi Martyr, though, the crazy-looking punk bassist that was part of the project at some point, but she didn't deliver anything groundbreaking on stage either.
TL;DR: this is a pretty basic project whose only chance of becoming a thing was based solely on its association with a dude like Yoshiki. Exit Yoshiki, nobody will go around shouting VUK is their favourite thing ever. Musically and image-wise, it also made a lot more sense in the early 2000s but not anymore. He also seems to have dropped it in favour of his Yoshiki Classical project, which kept some of the same singers and concepts, yet it's clearly superior. VUK will never debut and the album will never see the light, fight me on this!
