Perry - who began her career as one of 4 Non Blondes - was an essential part of Love's reinvention, helping her to ditch her grunge sound for the 2004 solo release. The two were understood to be working together on the new one.
But Digital Spy reports that the entire album has been binned with Love spinning off on a different direction - and her new collaborator is not the most obvious of partners.
Micko Larkin is now Courtney Love's right-hand man, assisting at sessions in Los Angeles. Larkin was the shaggy-haired guitarist you may or may not remember playing in the now defunct (and aptly named) indie band Larrikin Love.
While Linda Perry wrote songs including Christina Aguilera's Beautiful and Pink's Get the Party Started, Micko Larkin's work consisted of the rather more erudite At the Feet Of R� and Edwould. He played with Larrikin Love for at least a year and contributed strumming duties at a birthday party gig in London before the band broke up. Love was at the time playing the songs she wrote with Perry, calling her a "genius".
It seems she changed her mind.
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