In my last post by It's Immaterial I mentioned that just before the band broke up in 1990 they'd started recording what would have been their third album under the guidance of 'Song' producer Calum Malcolm, even titling it 'House For Sale'. Some twenty four years later, whilst moving studios, Jarvis Whitehead and John Campbell discovered a neat cardboard box containing the original multi-track Tascam DA-88 tapes from those sessions and decided to complete the project. After restoring the tapes and recording new parts to complete them, the duo started a crowd-funding page via PledgeMusic to raise enough money to release the album, and after a couple of years they managed to reach their target, and 'House For Sale' was finally released in September 2020. But the story doesn't end there, as the ten tracks that they chose for the album aren't all that was recorded, and with some being updated and re-titled, while others were dropped completely, the final release is pretty much a brand new record compared to my old bootleg of the album. If I remove the four tracks that have now appeared on the official release, we still have nine songs left, making up a 43-minute companion to the long-awaited follow-up to 'Song'. I would encourage anyone who fondly remembers the band, or was alerted to them by my earlier posts, to support them by buying 'House For Sale', and in the meantime you can listen to this collection of songs that didn't make it, but certainly deserved to.
01 Bored Usherette
02 Heaven Help Us All
03 Out Of The Blue
04 Just Drive
05 Wyoming
06 Is It All Right
07 Circus Boy
08 Betcha By
09 New Moon
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