2 months ago Mark confirmed in a Le Parisien interview that there will be a new album, yet there's people here saying that ODR is his final album.
Exactly! 
During a lot of the 2019 shows MK kept saying that he was thinking about retire of live shows, but he liked it so much that he would keep doing it untill fall on the stage...
https://youtu.be/lNQLVykmR-Y?si=IzgYs74afCsMWHah&t=2463
The way he said that in the interviews, says to me he¡s telling what people wants to listen to. Guy keeps saying there are no plans and that he doesn't know a thing about doing another record.
And he did exactly that, he played live until he really couldn't anymore, we could see that in 2019. He told us the truth
Guy doesn't know anything probably because MK is still writing songs/putting ideas together. His latest album was released a little over a year ago, so he's well within the usual 3/4 year cicle.
I do want another album, so maybe I'm biased, but I just don't see where people get the idea that he's fully retired. Many people here said DTRW was his final album and that Matchstick Man was the perfect goodbye, yet he worked a lot during 2022 - 2024.