{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-parlophone-99-lp-demos-cassette","title":"The Divine Comedy - Parlophone ’99 LP Demos Cassette","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeil Hannon’s Divine Comedy were at their commercial peak at the end of the ’90s, with a string of hit singles behind them. This Maxell XLII 60 cassette, in a Parlophone case and spine-labeled “The Divine Comedy – LP Demos,” holds his demos for the next record. The typed inlay, marked “Parlophone ’99,” lists six songs—“Mastermind,” “Edward the Confessor,” “Timestretching,” “The New Middle Ages,” “The Story of O,” and “Unnatural Love”—each with a percentage beside it in what looks like a progress check.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat next record became \u003cem\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e, the band’s first album for Parlophone, produced by Nigel Godrich and released in March 2001. Only some of these songs made it. “Mastermind” appears on the album, and “Timestretching” became its opening track, “Timestretched.” “Edward the Confessor” was released as a B-side on the “Bad Ambassador” single. The other three—“The New Middle Ages,” “The Story of O,” and “Unnatural Love”—do not appear on any Divine Comedy album or single that we can find, which makes this tape a rare record of songs that never came out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKey details \u0026amp; collectability\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaxell XLII 60 cassette in a Parlophone case, spine-labeled “The Divine Comedy – LP Demos”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTyped inlay dated “Parlophone ’99” with six song titles and a percentage beside each\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarly demos of “Mastermind” and “Timestretched” from \u003cem\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e (2001)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Edward the Confessor,” later a B-side on “Bad Ambassador”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree songs with no known official release: “The New Middle Ages,” “The Story of O,” and “Unnatural Love”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom the archive of London producer and engineer Chris Allison.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA percentage of Chris Allison’s proceeds from this collection will be donated to \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/restorethemusicuk.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRestore The Music\u003c\/a\u003e, a social impact charity that addresses systemic inequality in music education by providing capital grants to state schools in areas of high socio-economic deprivation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Allison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55544936071497,"sku":"LDN_CA_016","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/9992\/files\/IMG_7785.jpg?v=1791557308","url":"https:\/\/waxpoetics.com\/products\/the-divine-comedy-parlophone-99-lp-demos-cassette","provider":"Wax Poetics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}