Recorded 2012-2013 Artist Magic Eight Ball Genre Rock Label Magic Cat Records | Length 1:07:15 Release date 8 November 2013 Producer Donnie Vie | |
Released November 8, 2013
Re-released April 13, 2016 Sorry We're Late But We're Worth The Wait
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Sorry We're Late But We're Worth The Wait is the debut studio album released by power pop band Magic Eight Ball. Music videos were made for the singles "Monkey Bars" and "Russian Ballet"
Contents
Background
The songs on Magic Eight Ball's debut album span a larger period of time than their subsequent releases. The earliest of which are "Before It Was Murder" and "Local Girls" which date back to 1999 in their earliest forms, whereas songs like "Russian Ballet", "Monkey Bars" and "Something Better Has Come Along" were mostly written in the year or so leading up to going into the studio for the album. Between 2007 and 2011, half of the songs on 'Sorry We're Late...' were also recorded in their original versions for the band's first two EPs, "A Peacock's Tale" and "Mother Nature's Candy" . It was during that time that Magic Eight Ball front man Baz Francis began working with Dave Draper. Baz felt Dave was the best producer to help create Magic Eight Ball's music. Before the recording process had wrapped up, Baz went on the road in Europe with Donnie Vie on The Magical History Tour, and Vie contributed to the song "Before It Was Murder (You Got Me Talking)" before heading back to the United States. The album's name was coined by Baz Francis.
After all those years of working on my songs, recording in various ways with different people, I was so proud in what we had all created here, and it just felt very apt and ridiculously pompous in a good way to call the record 'Sorry We're Late But We're Worth The Wait'
The album was re-released on iTunes on April 13, 2016.
Track listing
All songs written by Baz Francis.
Musicians
Additional musicians
Production
Art direction
Songs
1Something Better Has Come Along3:25
2Sunday Mornings2:28
3Baby - Is It So?4:52