Danny Elfman signed "Big Mess" cd

[themightyboo2]

Now up for pre-order at recordstore.co.uk

https://www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstore/recordstore/Big-Mess-Sign...

Big Mess marks Elfman’s first solo collection in more than thirty seven years, but it’s no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot.

The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails, to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, Big Mess is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process.

Born and raised in southern California, Elfman began his career as part of a surrealist, avant-garde musical theater troupe known as The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo. The group would eventually morph into the critically acclaimed rock band Oingo Boingo, whose high-energy performances and genre-bending sound garnered them a fanatically devoted cult following in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Among the group’s early fans was fledgling director Tim Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), who enlisted Elfman to score their first feature film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.

The collaboration would prove to be the start of a long and fruitful partnership for Elfman and Burton, with Elfman going on to score a string of iconic Burton features like Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. To date, Elfman has scored more than 100 films.

[M.]

Oh, I guess this is the first time I've ordered from them, so I'm not positive what my order status is.

When I go to Order History, it has the date/time of the order. Then below that the Order # ("Cxxxxxxx"), below that "Order Total: US$19.88," and then below that "Confirmed."

To the right of the Order #, it says "Delivery 1 of 1 Pending 1 Big Mess: Signed CD"

[themightyboo2]

Ah, sorry, yes mine do say confirmed on the left too. Missed that somehow. Maybe they are delayed posting as an overseas order for them?

[M.]

Just following this up again, is there anyone else in the US who ordered this that still hasn't had theirs ship yet? I  haven't gotten any sort of email saying mine's shipped, so I think there's some issue with my order.

Until now I also didn't realize RecordStore is a UMG store, so I'm guessing their customer service will be trash.

[DeezNutz]

I still dont have mine. Assuming UK shipping is going to take a while. 

[DeezNutz]

Just got some b******* email saying mine couldn't be delivered and I'm getting refunded. What kind of service is that?! 

[Marshall Slayton]

Same. Recordstore has done that to me multiple times. Once with a signed Idles, a signed vinyl from The Streets, a signed Max Richter record, and now, Danny Elfman. It's extremely annoying. I don't know if they oversold and they're just shifting blame to the delivery service. 

The only time I was able to reorder was Max Richter, and I upgraded to the expensive tracked courier delivery to see what would happen -- and it came. So I don't know, but it's annoying they don't give you an opportunity to reorder sold out items.

In my experience, if you try to write them, they'll say "We're sorry, but it's sold out!" and that's basically it.

[DeezNutz]

And no number to call and actually fix the issue? Like my address was right there on the order. How can it not be delivered?

[DannyGraceland]

Same issue. Bet they did this to all the USA orders? Super bummed. Anyone got an extra?

[M.]

Did you originally get the email saying that your order had been dispatched, and then later got one saying that it couldn't be delivered, or was the refund email the only one you've gotten?

[DannyGraceland]

Yes I got an email that it was dispatched and that it was returned to them, but that they can’t reship.

[M.]

Ah okay, gotcha. I just finally got the email saying that mine had been dispatched today (I hadn't ordered one until Andy posted about the restock). Presumably I'll end up in the same boat as you guys and be told mine's undeliverable if this is effecting all US orders.

[DeezNutz]

I told them, take my order you got returned and send it back out. It isn't a hard concept to understand.