Flight of the Conchords

After hearing the announcement that Flight of the Conchords, HBO’s sophomore hit comedy, had been nominated for a whopping six Emmy Awards, I was very elated. The show, which featured fictionalized versions of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, the real life Flight of the Conchords, was finally getting more of the recognition it deserves. However, something was missing from my happiness – news of the release of the band’s second album. Though ten songs from the fifteen track album were already available on iTunes as singles, I was still hoping for a more complete soundtrack of the second season, which would perhaps include more songs that I thought were left out (“Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor,” for example, which was left out in favor of the Emmy-nominated ballad “Carol Brown”).

So then, to my surprise, Sub Pop, the record label that carries the Conchords, announced that the new album, featuring the ten songs already released and an additional five songs, would be released October 20th, three months from now. That’s quite a long way away from the initial release date, which was anticipated for early June, but was postponed mysteriously shortly before the actual date rolled around.

My guess is that the label was expecting some sort of Emmy recognition for the two awkward New Zealanders who created one of HBO’s funniest efforts in years, and postponed the album to ride on the waves that the Emmy nomination (regardless of whether they would win or not) would bring.

Songs for the album will include the hip-hop song “Sugalumps”(from the episode “A New Cup”), the sad rapper’s song “Hurt Feelings” (from “The Tough Brets”), and the strange cannibalism-themed sea shanty “Petrov, Yelyena, and Me” (from the season finale, “Evicted.”)

You can pick up season two of Flight of the Conchords on DVD in stores August 4th.