Soundgarden fans are enjoying a rare run of varied activity both recorded and live this year, with the band’s remarkable acoustic appearance at last weekend’s Bridge School Benefit leading to the announcement of a new 3-disc rarities collection. On November 24, Soundgarden will release the long-awaited 3-CD rarities collection, Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path. And damned if it isn’t the most badass thing we’ve seen in a while.
Among the set’s seven unreleased tracks is a brand-new recording, “Storm,” recorded in May this year with producer Jack Endino in Seattle. Listen to the haunting new track right here. And if you pre-order the album right here, you’ll get an instant download of ‘Storm’.
Featuring everything from original B-sides to unreleased tracks, instrumentals, covers and demos, the collection was curated and hand-selected by guitarist Kim Thayil. “As album sets go, this one has been fun to collect and compile over the decades,” he writes. “I personally may have referenced this project a number of times over the years, going back almost twenty of them to the mid-nineties!”
For the first time, Echo Of Miles collects and curates all these “scattered tracks across the path,” offering fans a different perspective on the 26- year history and evolution of one of alternative rock’s finest bands. The package was beautifully designed by Josh Graham and features three separate thematic discs in a clear plastic slipcase with three separate mini-jackets, each sporting its own unique art, a booklet and inserts, allowing you to mix and match your own album graphic layout.
Disc 1, dubbed “ORIGINALS,” is filled with Soundgarden-written songs, mainly B-sides, in addition to two unreleased songs, “Kristi” and “Storm.”
Disc 2, “COVERS,” offers a stellar showcase of songs written by bands that Soundgarden love and admire, from The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Doors to The Stooges, the Ramones and DEVO.
Disc 3, “ODDITIES,” offers instrumentals, remixes and demos, including Steve Fisk’s unreleased “The Telephantasm (Resurrection Remix)”, “Twin Tower,” penned by Matt Cameron, which was originally recorded at Seattle’s London Bridge studio in December 1988 during the sessions for Louder Than Love, and “Night Surf”, an instrumental performed by bassist Ben Shepherd.
Echo of Miles Tracklist:
CD 1 – Originals
- Sub Pop Rock City
- Toy Box
- Heretic
- Fresh Deadly Roses
- HIV Baby
- Cold Bitch
- Show Me
- She’s A Politician
- Birth Ritual
- She Likes Surprises
- Kyle Petty, Son of Richard
- Exit Stonehenge
- Blind Dogs
- Bleed Together
- Black Rain
- Live To Rise
- Kristi*
- Storm*
CD 2 – Covers
- Swallow My Pride
- Smokestack Lightnin’
- Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (John Peel BBC Sessions)*
- Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (John Peel BBC Sessions)*
- Come Together
- Stray Cat Blues
- Into The Void (Sealth)
- Girl U Want
- Touch Me
- Can You See Me? (Friday Rock Show BBC Sessions)
- Homicidal Suicidal (Friday Rock Show BBC Sessions)
- I Can’t Give You Anything (Friday Rock Show BBC Sessions)
- I Don’t Care About You (Friday Rock Show BBC Sessions)
- Waiting For The Sun (Live)
- Search And Destroy (Live)
- Big Bottom (Live)
- Earache My Eye (Live)
CD 3 – Oddities
- Twin Tower*
- Jerry Garcia’s Finger
- Ghostmotorfinger
- Night Surf*
- A Splice Of Space Jam
- The Telephantasm
- Black Days III
- Karaoke
- Fopp (Fucked Up Heavy Dub Mix)
- Big Dumb Sex (Dub Version)
- Spoonman (Steve Fisk Remix)
- Rhinosaur (The Straw That Broke The Rhino’s Back Remix)
- Dusty (Moby Remix)
- The Telephantasm (Steve Fisk 2014 Remix)*
- One Minute Of Silence
