Magnificent rumblings of The Dream Syndicate from the mid 80s featuring demos for the ‘Out Of The Grey’ album, unreleased songs from the era and the band live in New York delivering spine tingling takes on the album’s title track and ’50 In A 25 Zone’. This collection of much sought after rarities has never been pressed to vinyl, until now.
The Dream Syndicate’s 1986 album is being released for the first time in 24 years in vinyl. With some of Steve Wynn’s strongest songs – “Slide Away” is delightful pop, “Now I Ride Alone” is moody and intense “like the hardboiled typewriting of novelists Jim Thompson, Ross MacDonald, and James Cain” that Wynn dug back in July ‘85. The epic “Boston” imagines the era in which Van Morrison was holed-up in that city circa 1967-68 writing the songs that comprised Astral Weeks while “50 in a 25 Zone” is a vehicle for a band-driven, slow burn groove. The set including many unreleased demos and out-takes.
With a wealth of unreleased material – including a never-before-heard July 1985 live album which has the ‘balls to the wall’ energy hard not captured in the studio. The songs were so fresh on that July night – they had not been recorded in the studio yet. You’ll hear alternate versions of several Out of the Grey songs recorded as ‘demos’ before the album versions. Including “Out of the Grey” live, demos & outtakes… in other words, you need this!
The Fat Angel Sings 