I've dreamed of a Features record release party for about 3 years now.
There's a side of me that is cautious about getting excited about this. The Features' track record still leaves them more likely to shelf these recordings than release them. It is good that they are in the studio, but that is unfortunately a small piece. Record label interest is not a label. Mixing and mastering and artwork can slow things up. Something totally beyond me in the record industry almost always has release dates pushed back and played with so that completed albums sit in limbo before release.
"The Beginning" bypassed lots of this b/c the Features just sell it at the shows and distribute it to local record stores and this site. Another EP like that could come out as quickly as the Beginning, which only took about 3 months (I think), but the full length album that the band wants, that we the fans want, and that the world needs will take a lot more work by hands much more powerful than Rory's or the band's to be put out in a timely fashion.
I can't grow a beard, and I don't like to party.
~Matthew Tiberius Pelham