This is a limited edition 5 CD Box Set pressing (50 numbered copies) of the 5 EPs of new SOU music that was only released digitally to Urchin Prescription Plan members during the 2020 pandemic. Containing 36 songs and lyric booklet, they are all 'Tomato Mixes', meaning they are essentially the working versions of songs that could possibly end up re-worked for the new upcoming official SOU studio album. Read below for full info on the recordings.
EP'S INCLUDED IN BOX SET:
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MOONLIGHT OVER HELL
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MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS
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KRISTEN
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SPACE RACE
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THE OM
ABOUT THE BOX SET:
The 5 EPs were essentially our product of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s the back story...
We had been working on new songs since the Fall 2016 ‘SOU USA’ tour, and had amassed over 50 of them! As we entered 2020, pre-pandemic, we were trying to figure out what to do with all the new material, and were ready to fire up the Urchin machine again... to either use the songs for a new album... new albums... re-record them with the full band... remix them from the working recordings... a hybrid of both... we didn’t know.
Well, due to the pandemic, all of our plans (like everyone elses) stopped abruptly in March 2020. So, we would have to wait to put out a proper album until we could do it right, and tour, etc. But we had to do something, since we didn’t know when that would actually happen! And we wanted people to hear the music!
So we came up with an idea... a way to essentially let people into our album process, from where we were at. We called it the 'Urchin Prescription Plan 2020', which was a 5 month subscription plan for the remaining months of 2020 (Aug through Dec)... with music delivered monthly to subscribers’ e-mail inboxes, for streaming, plus mp3 and/or lossless downloading/iTunes library delivery. With the plan, each month we delivered an EP of new music from our collection, on the 1st of each month... as well as choice live shows from Bill’s “ILL Vault” and unreleased recordings from my archives, on the 15th.
So here are the 5 complete EPs of new music, exactly as they went out for the Prescription Plan. These are all 'Tomato Mixes', which are our working mixes, yet to be polished up for any official release. But great quality nonetheless... not rough demo quality, but maybe a little loud and messy at times! Also, these are songs that may or may not appear on a final album, or in the ‘Tomato Mixes’ state you have here; meaning that ones that end up on an album will be properly mixed/mastered, or re-recorded with the full band.
So now, somewhat ‘post-pandemic’... these songs, and their mixes, really represent the whole lock-down era for us. Even though they were mostly written before the pandemic, they have some sort of theme, vibe, and quality that seems to embody the experience in some crazy weird coincidental way, and the mixes feel like the time as well!
Well, due to the pandemic, all of our plans (like everyone elses) stopped abruptly in March 2020. So, we would have to wait to put out a proper album until we could do it right, and tour, etc. But we had to do something, since we didn’t know when that would actually happen! And we wanted people to hear the music!
So we came up with an idea... a way to essentially let people into our album process, from where we were at. We called it the 'Urchin Prescription Plan 2020', which was a 5 month subscription plan for the remaining months of 2020 (Aug through Dec)... with music delivered monthly to subscribers’ e-mail inboxes, for streaming, plus mp3 and/or lossless downloading/iTunes library delivery. With the plan, each month we delivered an EP of new music from our collection, on the 1st of each month... as well as choice live shows from Bill’s “ILL Vault” and unreleased recordings from my archives, on the 15th.
So here are the 5 complete EPs of new music, exactly as they went out for the Prescription Plan. These are all 'Tomato Mixes', which are our working mixes, yet to be polished up for any official release. But great quality nonetheless... not rough demo quality, but maybe a little loud and messy at times! Also, these are songs that may or may not appear on a final album, or in the ‘Tomato Mixes’ state you have here; meaning that ones that end up on an album will be properly mixed/mastered, or re-recorded with the full band.
So now, somewhat ‘post-pandemic’... these songs, and their mixes, really represent the whole lock-down era for us. Even though they were mostly written before the pandemic, they have some sort of theme, vibe, and quality that seems to embody the experience in some crazy weird coincidental way, and the mixes feel like the time as well!
So, enjoy these special recordings from a special, and wild, time in all of our lives.
tomato, June 15, 2021
tomato, June 15, 2021
TRACK LISTING:
MOONLIGHT OVER HELL
1. Moonlight Over Hell
2. The Half-Step
3. Pictures Used To Fade
4. Erratic
5. The Current
6. The Ring
MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS
1. Sunrise In Sunset
2. Most People Say
3. Just Do Me In > Erased
4. The Conflict Is On You
5. Letters From Tomorrow
6. Long Hot Summer
KRISTEN
1. Kristen, This Is All That There Is
2. Find An Answer
3. Chapter
4. The Promise That We Made
5. She’s Gotta Lotta Love
6. Down There
SPACE RACE
1. Space Race
2. You’ve Met The Light
3. Stardog
4. Looking Right Into The Truth
5.Occam’s Razor
6. The Universe > Universe Dub
7. Space Dragon
THE OM
1. Skylight
2. Hold The Animals Down
3. Electric Spiders
4. The Ongoing Dream
5. Bose Headphones
6. Bonus Track: Worse