Despite my best efforts to monitor eBay, Discogs, and various musical rarity locales for Bacon Ray releases, I missed this upload of Bacon Ray’s debut album, self-released on cassette in 1994.

I managed to grab a copy of their last album, The Golden Master, at some point after becoming familiar with one of the band’s vocalists and email contact, Merlin Mann. Of course, I know Merlin primarily as a podcaster, but his taste in music have continually proved eerily similar to my own. Thus, I’ve been seeking out his musical work for some time.

Perhaps down the line I’ll compile the various MP3s he’s dropped on Tumblr and Dropbox over the years. It’s a mess of in-jokes, covers, and instrumentals, but they’re all treats.

Anyway, Merlin noticed the upload on YouTube and tweeted it out today, much to my delight. It’s the first I’m hearing these tracks.

Update: The original upload has been removed. I’ve split apart the tape by track and re-uploaded it to the playlist embedded below.