I can tell you why I think it's too early actually few days ago I was thinking about this album and that's how I see it.. If I remember corectly, he said somewhere that he had nothing until last February. Between February and Christmas there is 11 months. He said that around Christmas he will finish about 70% of the new album, which means he will need about 5 more months to finish this album. So that would be about May. But.... If we will look at the date, when Mika finished recording TBWKTM (which I believe was in April) and the date when it was released (September), there is another 5 months. So that means we will have new album in October That's why I think February is too early
Ok, don't take this too seriously, it's just my theory