It was recently announced that a collection of unearthed Kurt Cobain tracks would be released on November 13 as Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings. It’s coming in conjunction with the DVD/Blu-ray release of the Brett Morgen-directed documentary. Today, Morgen revealed the tracklist in an interview with Rolling Stone. Check it out below, along with the album art.
Morgen said the album is completely composed of solo Cobain recordings, as he decided not to include any unreleased work recorded with Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. It features early demos of Nirvana songs, as well as unreleased tracks like “Letter to Frances”, “Aberdeen” (about a suicide attempt), “She Only Lies”, and “Do Re Mi”.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Morgen defended the album’s release.
“The morality of putting out unfinished work — I know that is a criticism that will be lobbied against the project,” he said. “But just like the Bootleg Series furthers your understanding of Bob Dylan’s process, I find that Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings furthers not just our understanding of his process but represents yet another angle, another side of Kurt — an artistic outlet that he was not necessarily able to work with in the context of a three-piece band. It’s not scraps and discarded, insignificant material. It really is furthering our understanding of one of the most significant artists of our time.”
The album will be released on CD, cassette, and digital formats on November 20; the double LP edition is out December 4. It includes “Sappy”, which was released earlier this week and will appear on a 7″ along with a cover of the Beatles’ “And I Love Her”. Both a 13-track standard edition and 31-track deluxe edition will be available.
Read our review of Montage of Heck from Sundance, and read our feature “Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and the Gendering of Martyrdom”.
Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings:
01 The Yodel Song
02 Been a Son (Early Demo)
03 What More Can I Say
04 1988 Capitol Lake Jam Commercial
05 The Happy Guitar
06 Montage of Kurt
07 Beans
08 Burn the Rain
09 Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo)
10 Reverb Experiment
11 Montage of Kurt II
12 Rehash
13 You Can’t Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something in the Way (Early Demo)
14 Scoff (Early Demo)
15 Aberdeen
16 Bright Smile
17 Underground Celebritism
18 Retreat
19 Desire
20 And I Love Her
21 Sea Monkeys
22 Sappy (Early Demo)
23 Letters to Frances
24 Scream
25 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Demo)
26 Kurt Ambiance
27 She Only Lies
28 Kurt Audio Collage
29 Poison’s Gone
30 Rhesus Monkey
31 Do Re Mi (Medley)
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