The Melvins Plan 36-Track Acoustic Album

Legendary punk band The Melvins have unveiled plans for their most prolific album so far: Five Legged Dog. The album will be released on October 15th through Ipecac Recordings.

Five Legged Dogs is a 36-song newly recorded, acoustic collection featuring a career-spanning collection of songs, from 1987’s Gluey Porch Treatments to 2017’s A Walk With Love & Death, the entire gamut of the legendary band’s catalogue is represented. Surprisingly, this will be their first acoustic effort in their nearly 40 year carreer.

Buzz Osborne discussed the idea behind it saying: “I knew I wanted to do something ridiculously big. 36 songs reimagined by us acoustically is certainly ridiculous but it works. The magic of the songs is still there regardless of it being acoustic. Since we weren’t touring we had the time to do something of this size. I’m very excited about this record. Dale and Steven did a fantastic job on this. I think it’s a very special record. I can’t think of anyone else who’s done something like this.”

The re-imagined version of Night Goats can be heard below. The original song appeared on their 1993 album Houdini. 

The collection will be released digitally, as a double-disc CD, both on Oct. 15, with a 4LP colored vinyl release arriving on Jan. 28. It can be pre-ordered here.