Last year, Massachusetts screamo pioneers Orchid played their first shows in over two decades. Now they're keeping the reunion momentum going with the announcement of The Skull Sessions, a 13-track collection of demos and outtakes that also marks the band's first released music in 20 years. As a preview, two songs called "No We Don’t Have Any T-Shirts" and "The Action Index" are out now.
The first six tracks of The Skull Sessions were made in 2000, after Orchid put out their now-classic 1999 debut Chaos Is Me. With the band craving a bit more creative freedom, these songs were also the first tracks ever recorded at guitarist Will Killingsworth’s Dead Air Studio. Meanwhile, the second half of the collection is a 1998 set Orchid recorded live in one take; this wound up being the demo Orchid sent to Kent McClard of Ebullition Records, who'd later put out Chaos Is Me. "No We Don’t Have Any T-Shirts" falls into the first category, while "The Action Index" is part of the latter. Listen to both below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "No We Don't Have Any T-Shirts"
02 "Discourse Of Desire"
03 "Tigers"
04 "Fashion Meets Passion"
05 "I Wanna Fight"
06 "Let's Commodify Sexuality"
07 "Panopticism"
08 "Frame Code"
09 "The Action Index"
10 "Epilogue Of A Car Crash"
11 "Eye Gouger"
12 "T-120"
13 "Weekend At The Fire Academy"
The Skull Sessions is out 3/7.
