Neutral Poetry LP: First Recordings, Unreleased Demos (2009-2010) 45 RPM

Limited to 500 copies. 45 RPM. Mastered by Elysian.  While we were working on Face Down In The Garden, Patrick found a box of unlabeled cassette tapes in the attic. They turned out to be 4-track recordings from the earliest days of our band, including the original versions of Marathon, South Carolina and Baltimore — the songs that launched our career back in 2010. We re-recorded them for our debut LP in 2011 because we were insecure about how lo-fi they were. We tried our best to duplicate what we liked about the demos in the studio, but the re-recordings lost some of the magic—something we’ve always regretted. Though we would never write anything like this today, these demos contain aspects of ourselves I wish we hadn’t lost touch with. The youthful exuberance! The total lack of self-consciousness! We didn’t care about doing anything the right way. All my vocals went through a guitar pedal and it sounds like I am singing to you from underground one hundred years ago. Some of these so