Here's a semi-unexpected one... lead Mountain Goat John Darnielle has said both "this is definitely coming out" and "this is definitely not coming out." Now it has a release date.
John Darnielle wrote:
The songs you find on this compact disc originally appeared on two cassettes. To elaborate further about that—to say, for example, that the songs originally appeared ‘on two cassettes that were released in ____ and ____’—would misrepresent the spirit of their time. These tapes did not have release dates. No one anticipated their coming into the world, and very few noticed or cared. All previous eras cross at some point into the territory of the unimaginable, and so it is with the days of tape-trading. The obscurity in which these songs were incubated and born and brought into their faint light is a state of being which has passed into history.
Track list. 1-16 are "The Hound Chronicles" and 17-32 are "Hot Garden Stomp." Also note that the track listed here as "Untitled 1" has a title, but it's in Hebrew.
1. The Garden Song
2. Going To Wisconsin
3. Spilling Toward Alpha
4. Alpha Negative
5. The Torch Song
6. Untitled 1
7. The Cow Song
8. Untitled 2
9. Going To Chino
10. Standard Bitter Love Song 4
11. Going To Mexico
12. Lab Rat Blues
13. Going To Kansas
14. The Water Song
15. Going To Spai
16. Keep It On Your Mind
17. Pure Milk
18. Ice Blue
19. Water Song Ii
20. Sun Song
21. Going To Japan
22. Are You Cleaning Off The Stove
23. The Hot Garden Stomp
24. Love Hymn To Aphrodite
25. Beach House
26. Hello There Howard
27. Going To Norwalk
28. Fresh Cherries In Trinidad
29. Feed This End
30. 15-i
31. Thanks For The Dress
32. Tell Me on a Sunday
