It has been over twenty years since the death of Kurt Cobain, but music fans are still hanging onto the every word of the iconic Nirvana frontman – a fascination and love of his music long outstretching the amount of time he was making it. And now, we are able to listen to solo music from Cobain that has never been released before. 

Following on from Brett Morgen’s ambitious biopic Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the director announced that a collection of previously unheard home-recorded Kurt Cobain songs would be released on November 13 as Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings. The first of those recordings, an old acoustic demo version of “Sappy”, which was recorded in 1988, is now available to stream. A similar early version of the song has been available on bootlegs and online for quite some time, but this is a significantly cleaned-up, mastered mix of the track.

In an interview with KCRW’s The Business, Morgen described the process of unearthing these recordings. “I went into the archives — this could be too strong a word — I liberated a lot of material for the film. The primary motivation at that moment was for Frances (Bean Cobain). I finished the film and there was all this other music.”

“No one asked me to do anything. I just started cutting the thing together and telling the estate they should put this out. Initially, I thought it would be a nice compliment to the film. I don’t have any financial stake in the album.”

Listen to “Sappy” below: