8 Amazing Music Albums You Can’t Even Buy Anymore

2. The Mountain Goats - Come, Come To The Sunset Tree

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Come, Come To The Sunset Tree is a demo album released by indie rockers the Mountain Goats. It contains a number of demo versions of the tracks on the band's critically acclaimed record The Sunset Tree as well as unreleased material.

The album was released physically alongside The Sunset Tree but never made it to digital form. Each copy of the record was hand painted by front man John Darnielle, featuring different colours and unique patterns. Come, Come To The Sunset Tree details Darnielle's abusive childhood home life and ways in which he learned to cope with his abusive stepfather.

Many of the demos sound vastly different than their studio counterparts, recorded on a single acoustic guitar rather than using full-instrumentation. For this reason the style of the songs is a lot closer to the Mountain Goats previous lo-fi aesthetic.

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Commonly found reading, sitting firmly in a seat at the cinema (bottle of water and a Freddo bar, please) or listening to the Mountain Goats.