We Need Secrets - Melancholy and the Archive (Expanded Edition)

Darla
(DRL381-3/DRL381-4)

$10.00

Release date: 2/9/2024

See also We Need Secrets - Melancholy and the Archive CD (Saint Marie).

Digital only Expanded Edition features 11 bonus tracks.

Melancholy and the Archive is the first full-length release (2014) from Nova Scotia, Canada’s We Need Secrets, the pet project of Chad Peck (Kestrels, Noyes Records). All songs were written, recorded, and performed by Chad, with guest appearances by ANGO, Elliott Frazier (Ringo Deathstarr), Paul Brown (Kestrels), and Omar Husain (Aim Low). Frazier also mixed the LP, which was mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac.

Melancholy and the Archive was originally released via Chad Peck's Noyes Records in Canada and on Saint Marie Records in the US and the world as an 11 song album.

For fans of: My Bloody Valentine, Swirlies, Eric’s Trip, Slowdive, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Ringo Deathstarr, Lilys

01 How You Remember
02 Months Like Years
03 I Would Take You Over
04 Melancholy
05 Uncommitted Crimes
06 The Archive
07 Pain Lines
08 Auster
09 Sleeper
10 Interiors
11 Cycles
12 Swimming Pool (Outtake)
13 No Kimono (Featuring Elliott Frazier)
14 I Would Take You Over Me (2012 Early Mix)
15 Cycles (Chad Early Mix)
16 How You Remember (Demo)
17 Months Like Years (Demo)
18 Sleeper (Instrumental Demo)
19 Melancholy (Demo)
20 The Archive (Demo)
21 Purple (First 7" A-side)
22 Slow Summer (First 7" B-side)