The Dream Syndicate

★★★★

What Can I Say? No Regrets… Out Of The Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes FIRE. CD/DL 1986 studio LP, previously unheard live performance, demos and more.

Some early fans had distanced themselves from The Dream Syndicate by 1986’s Out Of The Grey.

The band had a different line-up, after retiring briefly, and were embracing a more commercially savvy sound utilising a typically ’80s clean guitar tone. Yet Steve Wynn’s writing was still deliciously on point: songs such as the title track and Slide Away, intoxicating jumbles of fierce intensity, energy and country-tinged melody. Reissued for the first time on CD in 24 years, it’s bolstered here with two discs of previously unreleased extras: a storming July ’85 live show at New York’s Scorgies, delivering tracks that made it onto the aforesaid album in a wilder, rawer form, plus demos and outtakes – the latter including a run-through of The Munsters Theme Song. Lois Wilson