The Secret Best Friends debut album.

Out June 7 in digital and
12” vinyl formats.

Preorders and sponsorships available now. Scroll down to learn more.

 

WHAT ARE SPONSORSHIPS?

Making an album is expensive, so we need your help to get this project over the finish line. Sponsor this project and become a Friend of Secret Best Friends! Two sponsorship packages are available.

The $50 Friend of Secret Best Friends package includes your purchase of the album and the following benefits:

  • You will receive your full digital edition of the album on May 24, two weeks before the wide release

  • You will be recognized by name for your generosity in the album's liner notes (all digital and physical editions) and on our website in perpetuity

The $75 Friend of Secret Best Friends + Vinyl package includes the two sponsorship perks along with the 12" vinyl edition of the album. This one's for you, record collectors: Play the album on your turntable and see your name printed in the liner notes.

This project is supported in part through a Creativity Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, but the grant only covers some of the production and licensing costs. Generosity from sponsors like you will ensure we can recoup all of the costs spent to bring this album to life.

Please consider a sponsorship. Your support is the reason we’re able to make music together now and in the future. We love you.

TRACK LIST

  1. Everybody Eats When They Come to My House

  2. They Didn’t Believe Me

  3. No More Blues (Chega de Saudade)

  4. Nancy (with the Laughing Face) [feat. Eddie Holt]

  5. Obey Your Air Raid Warden

  6. C’est Si Bon

  7. (I Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo

  8. O Pato (The Duck)

  9. I Could Write a Book

PLEASE DON’T WAIT FOR SPOTIFY

As we stated above, making an album is expensive. Releasing an album nowadays requires small artists like us to choose between making a little bit of money through sales, or giving it to the world via Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and all of the other hundreds of streaming services out there. We don’t ever dream this will be a huge moneymaker for our group, but we want to try to make back at least some of our investment before we share it with the larger world via streaming services.

STOP, DON’T PANIC will be available exclusively via digital sales and 12” vinyl until June 2025, at which point we will upload the album to the streamers.

This is new territory for us, so we’re trying something to balance all of the various factors at play. And it’s important to us that we’re transparent with you about why we’re doing it this way.

The most important thing you can do for us: Buy our album if you can. Heck, sponsor it if you can. Share this page with your friends who might like it.

Your support ensures STOP, DON’T PANIC will be the first of many.

xoxo,
SBF