Sebadoh - The Freed Man

1988 saw Eric Gaffney and Lou Barlow working on a 4 track recorder, solo and in collaboration, for the tracks which would make up ‘The Freed Man’, the first cassette release by Sebadoh, their newly formed group. That summer, the duo selected and compiled the thirty minute cassette, a clutch of lo-fi, intimate, delicately twisted songcraft and dizzying, perplexing experimentation.
Now, following Domino’s expanded release of the group’s ‘III’ album last year, this deluxe release of ‘The Freed Man’ recompiles those original tracks with further contemporaneous songs, noise and abstraction. This doesn’t dilute the original, it deepens the experience, expanding the album’s horizons.  ·The reissue will be available on CD with slipcase of course but also on heavyweight vinyl, a format that will appeal to the collectors. The album compiles 52 tracks, all of early recordings from both ‘The Freed Man’ album and it’s EPs.

Tracks are

Healthy Sick
Level Anything
Soulmate
Ladybugs
Close Enough
True Hardcore
Julienne
Wrists
Amherst Hanging House
McKinley’s Lament
Solid Brown
Narrow Stories
Bridge Was You
Drifts On Thru     Overturns
Yellow Submarine
Squirrel Freedom Overdrive
Little Man
Land Of The Lords
Bolder
Believe
Deny
Wall Of Doubt
Crumbs
I Love Me
K-Sensa-My
    Lou Rap
Punch In The Nose
Resistance To Flo
Stop The Wheel
Loose N Screw
Oak Street Raga
Last Day Of School
Jealous Evil
Moldy Bread
Made Real
Cindy
Nest
My Decision
Fire Of July     Design
Dance
Cyster
Powerbroker
The Lorax
 Pig
Hung up
Slow To Learn
Elements
Attention
Your Long Journey
Jaundice

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