Circles

Circles

On September 17, Mike Doughty will release an album that will find him reinventing select songs originally performed by his former band, Soul Coughing. Doughty had famously eschewed the band's repertoire as he built a solo career in the years after their 2000 split. But now he's revisiting 13 of those songs, including 'Circles,' 'Super Bon Bon,' 'True Dreams of Wichita' and
'Unmarked Helicopters,' in an effort to explore his original vision when he wrote them, and before they entered the dysfunctional fray of the band.
After years of not playing the songs of the band he founded in the 90s, Doughty says the motivation to re-explore his old songs grew from writing his memoir, The Book of Drugs, which was published by Da Capo last year.
'After my memoir, which was full of pain, I picked up a guitar and, by myself, went through the songs I wrote in the '90s -- between the ages of 20 and 29 -- to figure out who I was, where I was, and what I was trying to say,' he recalls. 'There'll be more of the music
I stumbled into, and fell in love with, when I came to New York as an 18-year-old -- an explosion of amazing hip-hop and house music. I can use the weirdness I absorbed as a doorman at an avant-garde jazz club, when I was 21, more artfully. I think the songs
can be better than they were. I can make the actual songs more hearable. I think I can make them more like what I intended them to be.'
The album was recorded in Brooklyn with producer Good Goose (Menya, Ninjasonik, Mac Lethal, Homeboy Sandman) and the complete title is:

Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless How Many Cans? True Dreams of Wichita Monster Man Mr. Bitterness Maybe I'll Come Down St. Louise Is Listening I Miss the Girl Unmarked Helicopters The Idiot Kings So Far I Have Not Found the Science.
Country USA
Manufacturer Snackbar
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 5
ReleaseDate 2013-09-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 020286214670
EANs 0020286214670

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Snackbar
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	5
ReleaseDate	2013-09-17
UnitCount	1
UPCs	020286214670
EANs	0020286214670

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