Morphine Unveil Lost Album Cocoon

The surviving members of Morphine have reunited to complete an LP called Cocoon, started and abandoned in 1998, a year before the on-stage death of singer Mark Sandman. Decades in the making, the eight-song album is the Boston-based alt. rock outfit’s first full-length since fifth album The Night, posthumously released via DreamWorks in 2000. Watch an archival video for the title track below, ahead of the release on December 4, via Partisan.The band’s 1998 sessions were produced by Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade, the longtime Morphine production duo that also produced Radiohead’s Pablo Honey and Hole’s Live Through This. Kolderie worked with the late Sandman’s partner, Sabine Hrechdakian, to assess the original tapes from the sessions that now form the basis of Cocoon. Kolderie said in press materials, “I was astounded by the sound of the tracks when I put them up at the studio where we transferred them. It really felt so right to be bringing them back from the crypt into the world again.”To complete the album, Kolderie gave the recordings new mixes, and band member Dana Colley recorded new saxophone parts for three songs. Unlike most of Morphine’s catalog, which was an exercise i...