SURPRISE! Two albums full of unreleased SR demos. Hear us learn music. Wince. Swoon.

Lots of this.

It’s been a hot minute since Slow Runner has poked its gnarly head out of the ‘hiatus’ hole, but we’ve got a little surprise today: 22 songs from deep in the archives spanning our earliest days in Boston all the way through Damage Points and after. That’s something like 13 years of us trying stuff! All available today on our Bandcamp page.

Two warnings. One is these are DEMOS. They are really rough. Most only exist now in mp3 form, unmastered, the original ‘tapes’ lost to history on a broken hard drive currently baking in a landfill somewhere. Some were made on a cracked copy of Vegas Video I got from someone in the Berklee dorms. We really had no clue what we were doing. So if you go in with your expectations nice and low you’ll be fine. Think of it like you’re an archaeologist and you’ve stumbled upon recordings from an earlier, inferior civilization. They sound downright bad in places but, you must admit, they’ve just got a certain charm that is undeniable.

Warning number two is that these will only be up on the Bandcamp for ONE MONTH. Then they’re coming down. So feel free to stream/listen during that month and satisfy your morbid curiosity, or go ahead and buy them and download them to your own hard drive so you can listen for all time (or until your hard drive ends up in the landfill). Buying them will also give you the smug satisfaction of knowing you’re funding the further creation of music by both of us. We are recycling. Regardless they’re coming down Aug 16.

Volume one covers the earliest days, from the turn of the century through No Disassemble. Volume two picks up during the SHIV! era and runs through the mid-2010s. Hope you enjoy, though I can promise you won’t enjoy listening to them as much as we enjoyed making them. It was such a fun time to be in a band with what felt like limitless creative ambition (even when the craft was sorely lacking). I listen to these and hear all the faults and the limitations of early aughts bedroom recording but also the joy of experimentation. Above all they make me miss my sweet and talented friends.