Last night Van Hunt dropped an unreleased and unfinished concept album from 2008 entitled "Civilization". All of the 14 tracks are still in demo form. But there is some interesting tracks on here. Van explains the project below. The link to buy the album is also below.

http://vanhunt.com/album/civilization/

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I'm digging this better than the last released cd.

Riddle me this: Does an unreleased album of demos that is now for sale (i.e. released) become a finished product with completed tracks (i.e. they aren't demos anymore as demos are meant to promote the sale product) when an artist goes indie? The whole thing makes my head hurt. Its cool you post here though.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

JKOOLMUSIC said:

Riddle me this: Does an unreleased album of demos that is now for sale (i.e. released) become a finished product with completed tracks (i.e. they aren't demos anymore as demos are meant to promote the sale product) when an artist goes indie? The whole thing makes my head hurt. Its cool you post here though.

Too me demos are songs that were never ready for purchase. Not finished/complete and or not masteted.

Yep.

Graycap23 said:

Van Hunt's lack of success* is emblematic of our culture's shoddy taste and stupid values:
how many times do I have to hear about PBR&B stars singing about beating the pussy up
and doing lines of coke?

That being said, it is an interesting state of affairs when your album of demos may be more
captivating than the proper full length album you released earlier.


*I'm speaking mostly of popular success as in huge album sales, etc. I have no idea how
Van Hunt personally frames success.

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"Fascination" is so cool! I wonder what the influence is there? Heheheh.....

Anyways, "Muted Symphony" is Van Hunt at his finest.

A raw and powerful effort, with solid production work. Van Hunt seldom fails, with the exception of the last album, as it was an uninspired letdown.

duccichucka said:

"Fascination" is so cool! I wonder what the influence is there? Heheheh.....

Anyways, "Muted Symphony" is Van Hunt at his finest.

But those 2 aren't for sale.

P2daP said:

Dang...I really dug The Fun Rises! These demos are great. Definitely not as good as any finished studio album. But, still very good.

Indeed and I don't know what the other users are talking about when they claim TFRTFS is unistenable.

I bought Civilization and Use in Case of... good stuff.

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KingSausage said:

The Fun Rises is an amazing album. To each their own, but it continues to blow me away 6 months later.

Same here and we still have Bowie's new album next year.

I don't deserve to be so happy!

EroticDreamer said:

KingSausage said:

EroticDreamer said:

Same here and we still have Bowie's new album next year.

I don't deserve to be so happy!

I'm a little biased toward The Fun Rises because it came out the day my daughter was born. But that just makes great music even better.

EroticDreamer said:

P2daP said:

Dang...I really dug The Fun Rises! These demos are great. Definitely not as good as any finished studio album. But, still very good.

Me too !!! I dug the hell out of "The Fun Rises....". I see this demo project, as an extra goodie bag to the latest album. "I'm Not A Rainbow..........., my god, man !!!! Great stuff.

P2daP said:

KingSausage said:

joelmarable said:

P2daP said:

P2daP said:

KingSausage said:

What is Muted Symphony?

Muted Symphony is an unreleased track that Van recorded back in 1999 for the self titled album. You can hear it here. http://vanhunt.com/album/bootlegs/ It's a great track. It's the favorite of a few of my friends.

Yeah, he fucken killed that track. It reminds me of "Highlights" from the eponymous album in
its production values.

duccichucka said:

KingSausage said:

duccichucka said:

Yeah, he fucken killed that track. It reminds me of "Highlights" from the eponymous album in
its production values.

Has that song ever made the rounds?

Whaddya mean? And which song?