Sub Pop Apologizes For Vinyl-Damaging Deluxe Edition of Father John Misty’s I Love You, Honeybear

Father John Misty‘s new album I Love You, Honeybear came out the other week on Sub Pop through the usual formats: LP, CD, digital. The label also issued a limited run of deluxe, alternate-color, 2xLP tricolor vinyl housed in a “Dioramic, Meta-Musical Funtime gatefold jacket”. It’s a complex package, and as Stereogum reports, it proved a faulty one as well for some unlucky fans.

Today, Sub Pop posted a note on their website acknowledging manufacturing errors which actually damaged the vinyl surrounded by all the fancy trimmings. “In short,” they admitted, “the extra, bulging thickness of the pop-up art in the Father John Misty jacket creates a lump that, when the LPs are sealed and packed, pushes into the LPs, causing the vinyl to warp and making that handsome, painstakingly and expensively produced jacket an elaborate record-destroying device.” Those who purchased deluxe editions with defective vinyl are invited to trade them in for “100% non-warped, colored-vinyl LPs” (the packaging isn’t supposed to be sent back, only the LPs). Check out more info about the specifics of the swap here.

Read our new interview with Father John Misty here.

Here’s a video of the fancy packaging up close:

Watch Father John Misty perform “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” for Pitchfork.tv:

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