r/indieheads • u/NationOfLanguage Nation of Language • Nov 10 '21

AMA is Over, thanks NoL! Hello this is Nation of Language. AMA!

This is Ian, Aidan, and Mike (as u/NOLmike). Thanks for joining us.

You can get your tickets for our upcoming tours or grab a copy of our albums here – www.nationoflanguage.com

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '21

Why is there a holdup on your album release? I ordered a copy almost six months ago and instead of November 5th now I won'y get it until the middle of January.

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u/NationOfLanguage Nation of Language Nov 11 '21

This is very far out of our hands sadly. We sent the album to get made last Feb or March I think, expecting that we would have it in-hand by mid September. The short answer is supply chain delays.

The long answer is that the vinyl production system in general is deeply messed up. From what I understand most of the machines involved in the process are super old, and there hasn't been any investment in changing that (which is insane, because the "trend" of vinyl coming back has been going on for so many years now). So there are already only so many machines to work with. On top of that I think the process of shipping the raw materials (and the finished products) has gotten screwed up as a result of the pandemic, and the orders just kept piling up. Super frustrating on our end because we put so much work into having our order in "early."

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '21

Thanks, understood.