Unreleased
- 1Golden Age (original demo)4:04
The finished song’s first line and its coming along ending already in place, the writing still a sketch around them.
Read lyrics and notes - 2Knuckle Velvet (early demo)2:55
The goring heart of the song arrives fully formed, the rest still placeholders circling it.
Read lyrics and notes - 3Powerline Valley (early demo)2:31
The vow that survives every version of the song, two people alone in the Alabama wild, the powerlines promising a way out.
Read lyrics and notes - 4Powerline Valley (piano demo)8:34
A slated take at the piano, the whole story told long. First love under the powerlines, his father’s belt, and a promise to let the lines take her somewhere for them both.
Read lyrics and notes - 5Verona (demo)4:38
Her body as the doomed lovers’ city, belonging to him worn as a badge and a bruise at once.
Read lyrics and notes - 6Doe Hunting (demo)3:28
A murmured sketch, want and reassurance audible where the words are not. Nothing hurts me here is the line that cuts through.
Read lyrics and notes - 7Highway Horses3:41
Two ways of not being afraid to die, his driving and her dreaming, watched from a motel parking lot. Horsepower and roadside Jesus in one couplet.
Read lyrics and notes - 8Chapel Hill4:15
A siege story, graves dug bare handed and a mob at the windows, love real and useless at the same time.
Read lyrics and notes - 9Death Rattle4:12
Love priced honestly up front, a body never built to last, and a question she cannot ask without crying, whether she is anything to him but a casualty.
Read lyrics and notes - 10Vultures4:05
Judgment arrives wearing a woman’s name. She goes into the woods after a man who never loved her and comes out born again.
Read lyrics and notes - 11Starvation4:12
A famine kept as a diary, weeks counted in blood and prayer, a child’s hymn bent into an accusation over an empty table.
Read lyrics and notes - 12Room 2093:20
Intimacy in a numbered room, held and lonely at once. Happiness traded away for belonging.
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About the record
Unreleased collects a dozen tracks from the project’s first years, demos of Golden Age material alongside songs that exist nowhere else. Less a record than an open drawer, it is one of the main ways the earliest writing survives.
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Release details
- Released
- 28 February 2020
- Format
- Compilation
- Runtime
- 12 tracks · 49 minutes
- Label
- Daughters of Cain Records
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