It is nice of Atlantic to give us Rumer’s Seasons Of My Soul…two years later.  This album was released later in 2010, and it took until 2012 for the album to get a proper release here in the US…only a short time before Rumer is set to release her second album throughout the rest of the world.  I can only imagine that it is typical record industry politics that has kept it from US listeners.  Most of us who cared about the music have already bought an import copy (or two).  A little late aren’t we, Atlantic?

To add possibly insult to injury, the US version not only stops at 11 tracks (like the original release; there are at least a half dozen new tracks that could have been included as bonus tracks), it rearranges the track order, putting the show-stopper “Slow” first on the album, and moving “Am I Forgiven” to third spot, upsetting the flow of the album.  It’s like the marketing department decided how to sequence this for the US: put the “first big hit” in the #1 spot on the album so that fickle US listeners don’t tune out the album immediately.

Even more curious is why the album is shown as being a CD-R on Amazon’s website.  It is presented as one of Amazon’s CreateSpace products, manufactured on demand.  I can forsee this happening for releases in the future as the world unfortunately shifts to downloadable music product, but for an artist who has already shipped a million albums worldwide, it is an insult?  Atlantic Records in the US can’t even bother to give her a proper release?  (And they wonder why the recording industry is so screwed up and people download illegally??)  Atlantic should be ashamed…especially since Rumer is probably one of the few good artists they still have signed to the label!  She deserves better than getting the shit end of the stick.