Frank Black and The Catholics Streaming “How You Went So Far”


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Frank Black and The Catholics are streaming “How You Went So Far,” off of his forthcoming The Complete Recordings box set out April 20, 2015 via Cooking Vinyl here.

The 7 CD box features all of the band’s 6 studio albums plus a bonus cd entitled True Blue which is made up of recordings from the Black Letter Days album sessions.

All six formally released albums (self-titled [1998], Pistolero [1999], Dog in the Sand [2001], Black Letter Days [2002], Devil’s Workshop [2002] & Show Me Your Tears [2003]) have been re-mastered from the original live 2-track and 1-track recordings. The release contains well over a hundred songs. True Blue is a disc of “technical demos” that Ben Mumphrey (who engineered all of the mobile recordings) found in his New Orleans recording archive.

The box set will have the songs in alphabetical order as Black Francis AKA Frank Black explains the alphabetisation ‘It feels like an approximation of randomness and its a way to randomise something, especially if its titles.” He goes onto say by placing the songs this way ‘we get away from the preciousness of LPs we put out and its more about the body of work, the good times that we had’.