Sent at 11:30am PST today:
Hey friends,
I'm sending you this email because you're a subscriber to our SOUNDS DELICIOUS series. We just wanted to give you a little update on the status of our releases.
Status of SD013
These have all shipped. If you haven't received your copy of No Vacation's cover of
The Cranberries debut album yet - let me know!
Status of SD014
Delayed? Say it ain't so! If we ever get completely on schedule I swear I'll declare a holiday. A life without vinyl delays? Only in dreams. Thankfully this
is in production and will hopefully be in the garage and ready to ship by the end of the month or thereabouts. Is this awkward paragraph an attempt to squeeze in a bunch of hints as to the album being covered? Yup.
Status of Inventory of Past Releases
We are officially sold out of the following albums: Frankie Rose, Yumi Zouma, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. We expect to sell out of the albums by Cults, Pure Bathing Culture, Chewing, and No Vacation before too long. If you're interested in any of these albums (or any of our other past releases) and would like to use any of your existing balance towards them let me know as soon as possible. We'll ship you the rarest variant available.
Status of SD015 and SD016
Unfortunately, our artists hit recording delays on both of these so they're just going to add to our string of delays. The good news is that they'll both be ready at roughly the same time and probably shortly before SD017. They aren't in full production yet though so we can't give you an exact date or even an accurate estimate on them. We'll send an update once we can though.
The Delays
We've said it before and we'll say it again. You are the best. Thank you so so much for being understanding about the delays!
There are so many reasons they occur including production delays at the plant, recording delays by the artists, necessary revisions in the artwork, unacceptable audio quality on the test pressings, etc. The delays are super stressful for us but we're not willing to push anything through before it's ready and at the quality we expect.
We've tried to get ahead of it by getting more artists in the pipeline. The problem is that we are a small business and we can only afford to pay so many advances at a time. We do have a number of artists in the queue and we work every day to try to address the issue. For now, trust that the series is continuing and we have a lot of great surprises in the works.
With that said, I totally understand if you’re worried about the delays. If you want to chat about it or figure out options for how we can handle the balance we owe you - send me an email and we’ll sort it out.
As a reminder, we owe you 1 LP for every payment we receive from you no matter what’s going on with production delays. It may take time but we’ll get you sorted out eventually. If you have a balance and are interested in applying part of it towards past SOUNDS DELICIOUS releases; our Coffee & Vinyl Pairings; or Pairings Box clubs we can definitely do that.
Anyways, thanks again and always feel free to reach out to me directly with questions or concerns.
Best,
Matthew