THE DEAD TONGUES - Unsung Passage (2023 Reissue) - LP - Vinyl [AUG 25]

LP - Black Vinyl. 

The long-awaited reissue of The Dead Tongues' third album, Unsung Passage, a profound reflection on the emotional architecture of love, loneliness, and life at large. The Dead Tongues is songwriter Ryan Gustafson's long-evolving vehicle for a beautifully fractured vision of folk, country, blues, and cosmic American rock, and Unsung Passage is a first-person reckoning with the things Gustafson, a chronically peripatetic adventurer, has seen enough to sing about.

The ten remarkable tracks of Unsung Passage are long-distance distillations of events lived and places seen and pondered and ultimately poured into reflective anthems for our harried times. During "Like a Dream," a gentle gallop of grinning harmonica and trickling guitar, Gustafson explores the balance of existence from a hillside vantage. He sees the curve of the earth while pondering his need for a paycheck, a moment that eternally pits the banal against the beautiful. This isn't Gustafson's idle speculation about life and the world: these are the realizations of a restless mind, of a songwriter who sings "this old town ain't gonna watch m edie" and means it. 

Tracklist:

A1. Won't Be Long
A2. Ebb And Flow
A3. Pale November Dew
A4. My Other

B1. Like A Dream
B2. Unsung Passage
B3. The Broken Side Of People Everywhere
B4. Thunder And Crash
B5. The Giver
B6. Clip Your Wings