Depending on who you ask, the 25-year delay of Trailer Park Pam’s self-titled debut could be chalked up to getting lost in the shuffle of a major-label merger or simply a “strategic pause” while the alt-rock quarter waited for the music industry to implode and be born again. Either way, last Friday marked the release of said album, which was initially slated to drop in 2001 via Interscope before the band was dropped by their label as the major’s cards were being reshuffled.
In either case, Trailer Park Pam is out now via Universal Music Group, with its turn-of-the-millennium take on post-grunge and acoustic rock conveniently coming back into fashion as of late. “We could see where things were headed in 2001,” frontman Keith Megna shared in a mostly tongue-in-cheek press statement. “We figured we’d let the entire music industry change, collapse, rebuild itself, and then see if Thursday was good.” “The time is now,” added his brother and bandmate David Megna. “Some bands are ahead of their time. We wanted documentation.”
The band’s manager John Asher was also in on the joke, stating: “A lot of people would call this an unreleased album. We prefer ‘an extremely exclusive listening period.’” However he also shared a Reel that sheds a bit more light on what happened back in 2001.
You can (finally) check out the full record below.
