Now released for the very first time in full on CD, this deluxe edition of 'The Freed Man' comes with a massive 52 tracks (originally 31 tracks) of contemporaneous songs, noise and abstraction.

After his split from J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr in 1989, bassist Lou Barlow's attention turned back to his home-recording side-project with Eric Gaffney. The first album proper for Sebadoh, 'The Freed Man' went on to become one of the most crucial releases in the burgeoning lo-fi indie rock movement, which would eventuate in the success of Beck, Guided By Voices and Sebadoh themselves. Sebadoh, in this incarnation, are a cherishably intimate experience. The 70-odd minutes of wayward, crazy-paved brilliance collected here offers listeners the rare and recommended opportunity to transport themselves to the weed-hazed bedroom where these scraps and songs and pranks were recorded and imbibe the haywire creativity of these sessions. Radically inventive with brilliant songwriting, raw warmth and a playful, restless sensibility, 'The Freed Man' resonated with music lovers everywhere, disillusioned with the soulless over-produced rock of the time.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Healthy Sick
2. Level Anything
3. Soulmate
4. Ladybugs
5. Close Enough
6. True Hardcore
7. Julienne
8. Wrists Sebadoh
9. Amherst Hanging House
10. McKinley's Lament
11. Solid Brown
12. Narrow Stories
13. Bridge Was You
14. Drifts On Thru
15. Overturns
16. Yellow Submarine
17. Squirrel Freedom Overdrive
18. Little Man
19. Land Of The Lords
20. Bolder Sebadoh
21. Believe
22. Deny
23. Wall Of Doubt
24. Crumbs Sebadoh
25. I Love Me
26. K-Sensa-My
27. Lou Rap
28. Punch In The Nose
29. Resistance To Flo
30. Stop The Wheel
31. Loose 'N' Screw
32. Oak Street Raga
33. Last Day Of School
34. Jealous Evil
35. Moldy Bread
36. Made Real
37. Cindy
38. Nest
39. My Decision
40. Fire Of July
41. Jaundice
42. Design
43. Dance
44. Cyster
45. Powerbroker
46. Lorax, The
47. Pig
48. Hung Up
49. Slow To Learn
50. Elements
51. Attention
52. Your Long Journey