In May 2014, Young stated that "Volume II" would be finished by the summer, and that the remaining volumes would be issued relatively quickly following the second. In July 2016, "Rolling Stone" and the Thrasher's Wheat website reported that Young intended to focus on completing "Archives Volume II" after his tour with Promise of the Real concluded that October. Although a physical release was still planned, it would also involve a "high-resolution website" and would also include unreleased works entitled "Dume" and "Hitchhiker" ("Hitchhiker" was later released as a standalone album on September 8, 2017, with "Dume " later confirmed to be a disc on "Volume II"). In August 2018, in response to an enquiring fan in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of the NYA Times-Contrarian area of his website, Neil had the following to say: