Don't Ask Don't Tell | Expanded Edition

.. DON'T TELLIn 1994 Come responded to the difficult-second-album stereotype with the hypnotic, intense and emotional masterpiece 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'. Featuring the original line-up of Thalia Zedek, Chris Brokaw, Sean O' Brien and Arthur Johnson, the Boston band broadened their sound by slowing down the tempos and creating a dense urban stream of consciousness that mixes noise, city blues and. catharsis. The album hits you immediately as one of the greatest dissident records ever made. Lovingly remastered, this expanded edition includes 'Wrong Sides', an additional albums worth of b-sides and unreleased tracks, including the band's very first single 'Car' and their last recorded song, 'Cimarron', featuring this core line-up. These gems showcase the rawness and incredible growth of a band completely in command of their songwriting and at the same time paying homage to some of their punk roots with beautiful renditions of Swell Maps 'Loin Of The Surf' and X's 'Adult Books'. Also Includes new artwork with unearthed photos and fresh liner notes by the band. Dissident from traditional rock - this is a band playing music that thematically and structurally seems to pull from old Europa, from Eastern folk and modernist classical music as much as US and UK rock. Dissident from traditional ideas about singing and songwriting - Thalia's (ex of Live Skull) presence on songs like 'Yr Reign' and the astonishing closer 'Arrive' isn't the pushy self-aggrandizement of a lead singer but t

Tracks

1~1~Finish Line
1~2~Mercury Falls
1~3~Yr Reign
1~4~Poison
1~5~Let's Get Lost
2~1~String
2~2~German Song
2~3~In/Out
2~4~Wrong Side
2~5~Arrive
3~1~Car
3~2~Last Mistake
3~3~Submerge
3~4~Loin Of The Surf
3~5~Svk
4~1~German Song (Demo)
4~2~Adult Books
4~3~Who Jumped In My Grave
4~4~Angelhead
4~5~Cimarron

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Come
Release Date: 22 October 2021
Genre: Alternative
Label: FIRE
Distributor: Rocket Group