Father John Misty releases exclusive track ‘I Loved You, Honeybee’ on heart-shaped vinyl

7-inch released for Record Store Day

Father John Misty was involved in the Record Store Day fun yesterday, releasing an alternate mix of his latest album’s title track ‘I Love You, Honeybear’.

The song, renamed ‘I Loved You, Honeybee’, was packaged with the previously unreleased B-side ‘I’ve Never Been A Woman’ on a heart-shaped 7-inch release that, according to Stereogum, has been limited to 5,700 copies. Interestingly, Misty – real name Joshua Tillman – performed a cover of Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ during a session for US radio station Sirius XMU in February. Click below to listen to ‘I Loved You, Honeybee’.

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In February, Tillman’s label Sub Pop was forced to apologise after it emerged that the extra bonus features added to the deluxe ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ actually caused the vinyl record to warp. The special edition of the LP came packaged in a ‘Dioramic, Meta-Musical Funtime gatefold jacket’, with various report emerging upon its release of the records being damaged.

Sub Pop addressed the issue in a blog posted to their website, saying: “In short, 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. This oversight, and any attendant suffering, is our fault, and we are very sorry. We promise to be less ambitious in the future.”

The label added: “We are currently making 100% non-warped, coloured-vinyl LPs to replace these damaged LPs. We hope to have a delivery date for those soon, and we will update this page as soon as we have that information.”

Tillman is scheduled to play two shows at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire this October 28 and 29.

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