“This album’s been a long time coming, so naturally the details of the release are a big deal,” said the group’s manager, licensed horticulturalist Nathaniel Henderson. “The conditions have got to be just right in order for the music to reach the market at its peak: exposure to sunlight, environmental temperature; even fertilizer acidity has got to be spot-on.”

The group’s sophomore album, Contour (2010), captivated listeners with its ska, synthpop, and speed rap musical influences, as well as with its lyrical themes of conflict, compromise, and ploughing across a slope following its elevation contour lines in order to prevent soil erosion. The upcoming album, Henderson states, will be well worth the wait and will feature much darker, richer overall content when it hits produce aisles nationwide sometime this year.

“VW and America experienced a prolonged dry spell that began in the Midwest in February 2010 and had extended to the Eastern seaboard by April of the same year,” he said after consulting his yeoman’s handbook. “In the time since then, the guys have done a great deal of maturing. A significant amount of propagating and ripening, too.”

As of press time, Henderson was still preparing Vampapaya’s new organic sound for mass consumption with the help of the album’s executive producer, God.