Streetlight Manifesto, notorious for delayed albums and the lack of new releases, has delayed their newest record until the fall.
The Place Behind The Stars, the band’s fourth record of original music, was set to be released on Pentimento on Tuesday, June 24th. The band is performing their “album release show” at the Stone Pony Summer Stage on Friday, June 27th.
“Hi there, Tomas here, singer man for Streetlight, coming in hot and embarrassed, tail tucked humbly between my legs, with the maybe ridiculously predictable bad news that our new record is being delayed by a few months until September or October,” the band said in a statement released on social media.
The band promises that the record will be released around September and October, and will release a concrete date soon. They pledge to not move the new date.
As for the reason of the delay, Kalnoky blames himself for not finishing a record that is as good or better than previous releases.
“The record is not where I want it to be yet, and when I realized it couldn’t be finished in time and finished at a level of quality meeting or exceeding the quality of our previous efforts, I shifted work to focus on getting three songs release ready by the release date,” he said. “The full record simply needs more time in the oven, time I haven’t been able to give it in the last half year or so due to personal reasons.”
Three songs from the record, totally 20 minutes, will be released on the intended date of June 24th. The songs will be performed at all dates on their upcoming tour.
“There’s not much else I can say besides I wholeheartedly and honestly apologize to those of you that had been excited to hear the full record next week; I’m sorry the wait for the remainder of the songs will be a bit longer and I hope that what you hear next week will convince you that the full album will have been worth the wait,” he said.
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