Sponge Announce Lost Tracks Compilation, Unveil New Song “Wet Brain”

Sponge have announced a compilation of early recordings entitled Electric Cattle Gods – The Lost Tracks. It arrives November 14th via Cleopatra Records.

The album also includes two newly recorded songs, one being “Wet Brain,” which can be streamed now. The brooding post-grunge track is steeped in the band’s signature sonic characteristics: deliberate and forceful percussion, dynamic stabs of guitar, and the recognizable drawl of singer Vinnie Dombroski.

If that song is a document of present-day Sponge, the remainder of the upcoming comp is a flashback to where they came from, before they were even called Sponge. As the story goes, the Detroit band — originally known as Loudmouth in a cameo during the film Point Break — had reinvented itself under the moniker Electric Cattle Gods in 1992.

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That band name was to be emblazoned across the marquee of the now-shuttered Ritz Concert Hall on Gratiot and Frazho in Roseville, Michigan. But club owner Joe Sgrol had to inform the upstart group: “We don’t have enough letters for that!”

The band replied: “Do you have enough letters for ‘Sponge’?” And it turns out Sgrol did.

The upcoming compilation contains 11 never-before-heard demos and rehearsal recordings from before that exchange, during the short-lived Electric Cattle Gods era. Some would later be recorded for the band’s 1994 major label debut Rotting Piñata, among them “Drownin,’” Sponge’s breakout hit “Molly (16 Candles),” the B-side “Cowboy Eyes,” and more.

Stream “Wet Brain” below, and see the artwork and tracklist for Electric Cattle Gods – The Lost Tracks, which can be pre-ordered on vinyl and CD via Cleopatra Records.

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