The Freed Man

by Sebadoh

The Freed Man cover art

Originally circulating as an impossibly massive cassette release, Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney's first proper album is a cornerstone of the 1990s lo-fi indie rock revolution. Recorded entirely on 4-track cassette recorders, the record is a dizzying, chaotic patchwork of tender acoustic ballads, abrasive noise fragments, and bizarre found-sound tape collages. It established Sebadoh's defining aesthetic of fragmented, hyper-intimate emotional vulnerability.

Genres

  • Indie Folk
  • Slacker Rock

Tracklist

  1. Bridge Was You
  2. Soulmate
  3. I Love Me
  4. Nest
  5. Careless Mind Hands
  6. True Hardcore
  7. Close Enough
  8. Loosened Screw
  9. Solid Brown
  10. Made Real
  11. Crumbs
  12. Narrow Stories
  13. Drifts On Through
  14. Wall Of Doubt
  15. Lou Rap
  16. Growin' Up With You
  17. Healthy Sick
  18. Land Of The Lords
  19. Ladybugs
  20. Moldy Bread
  21. Squirrel Freedom Overdrive
  22. Burning Out
  23. Bolder
  24. Why Do You Cut Off Your Sleeves?
  25. Wrists
  26. Last Day Of School
  27. Punch In The Nose
  28. Deny
  29. Level Anything
  30. Jealous Evil
  31. K-Sensa My I
  32. Mothra