Laurie Styvers - Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities - LP COLOURED

Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities collects the bonus tracks from High Moon Records’ critically lauded CD Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings. Appearing on vinyl for the first time, these 11 alternate takes, demos and previously unissued songs hail from the sessions for Laurie Styvers’ two unjustifiably obscure LPs Spilt Milk and The Colorado Kid, recorded in early 1970s London, and recently tagged by Pitchfork as “a sharp and idiosyncratic snapshot of how it feels to try growing up.” Akin to a “lost” third album, this remarkably well-rounded package is a further showcase for the honey-voiced intimacy of this youthful Texas singer-songwriter, with a program of lovelorn gems doused in splendid orchestration. RIYL Carole King, Judee Sill, Weyes Blood. Packaged with a four page lyric insert.

Side A :
Gemini Girl (alternate version) / et Me Comfort You / God Knows The Reason / White Flower (alternate vocal) / All I Ever Had (demo version) / If You Don’t Write Me Soon

Side B :
Oh Colorado (alternate version) / The Way It Should Stay / Part Time Lover / Crazy Rainy Spring / Now That The Rain’s Stopped