VINYL FORMAT. Initially conceived by Ed Droste, who, in 2002, began a 15-month "hibernation period" in his Greenpoint apartment, the seven nuggets that make up this release are the creative genesis of the Grizzly Bear oeuvre. Raised in Boston by an elementary school music teacher, Edward Droste grew up surrounded by music, prompting him to take up various instruments and write his own songs at an early age. After years of singing in circles, he discovered the joys of home recording and proceeded to use whatever he could get his hands on to make new sounds, capturing it all on a small hand-held tape recorder. The intimacy felt on their debut, Horn of Plenty, traces back to the songs here on Sorry for the Delay - they're elegiac, emotional, endearing, and earnest. Contains a haunting cover of Yes hit, "Owner of a Lonely Heart."