Bill Fay

Bill Fay – Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:38 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow has a patchy release history: recorded between 1978 and 1981, it was not released until 2005, when it appeared on CD with limited streaming and no vinyl companion. A 2006 reissue brought the album onto vinyl but with a truncated sequence and nine song missing. Now, finally, Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow arrives in full worldwide. Available on streaming services worldwide and pressed to a double-album vinyl edition, it features the album’s original 22 songs and includes rare and previously unseen photographs from Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow’s original recording session. In the words of Gary Smith and Rauf Galip, missing Bill Stratton, and abbreviated from the forthcoming album notes: We chose five songs to record as finished pieces: Life, Spiritual Mansions, Cosmic Boxer, Strange Stairway, Isles of Sleep, all recorded in two studio sessions. We sent them out to try and get a record deal. There were few really independent labels back then and Punk was in the record labels’ ears. No deal. And now, Dead Oceans who have a lot of faith in Bill’s music wants to re- release the ‘Tomorrow’ album. A double vinyl package. Is there any more unreleased music for the fourth side? Of course. So, we’ve been opening old boxes, finding CDRs, cassettes, a musical archaeological dig. This is our choice from all the music we found.

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Bill Fay – Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2024) [24Bit-44.1kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:38 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Bill Fay – Countless Branches (Deluxe Edition) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:24 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

Bill Fay returns with the third album in the celebrated second phase of his recording career. A prime Fay song is a deceptively simple thing which carries more emotional weight than its concision and brevity might imply. There are ten of these musical haikus on Countless Branches, as pointed and as poignant as anything he’s ever recorded. For decades now – it’s almost 50 years since he cut his classic albums “Bill Fay” and “Time of the Last Persecution” – songs like these have been Fay’s ambassadors helping rave reviews and endorsements from the likes of Jim O’Rourke (Tortoise) and Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) which led to a huge revival of interest in his music. He had continued to make music almost every day in the intervening decades. For Countless Branches he’s completed new toplines over some of his cache of backing tracks, most of them 20 to 40 years old.
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Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 1 (2022-01-14)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:45 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

Dead Oceans is pleased to present Still Some Light Pt. 1, collecting Fay’s archival recordings from 1970 and 1971. Many of the songs are intimate sketches which were eventually re-recorded for Fay’s self-titled debut and for his landmark album, Time of the Last Persecution. This double LP set includes heart wrenching versions of some of his timeless works, such as “I Hear You Calling” and “Pictures of Adolf Again”, and features equally powerful songs like “Arnold is a Simple Man” and “Love is the Tune,” which only appear in this collection.
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Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:39 minutes | 655 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are “calming hymns for another chaotic time”, he says. His influence can be traced through many artist’s work, and so it only seemed right to celebrate this with a collection of newer voices interpreting his timeless tracks. Originally released in 2010 by David Tibet (Current 93), Still Some Light was released as a double CD, made up of 70’s album demos (Disc One) and 2009 home recordings (Disc Two). This year, for the first time, this collection of recordings will be pressed to vinyl and released digitally, presented alongside contemporary reimaginings of the tracks by Kevin Morby, Steve Gunn, Julia Jacklin and Mary Lattimore. Bill Fay’s words and melodies remain unaffected by the passing of time and changing trends; and here alongside the original recordings, these reinvented versions still calmly guide us through another moment of chaos.

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