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Sponge<\/a> have announced a compilation of early recordings entitled Electric Cattle Gods \u2013 The Lost Tracks<\/em>. It arrives November 14th via Cleopatra Records.<\/p>\n The album also includes two newly recorded songs, one being \u201cWet Brain,\u201d which can be streamed now. The brooding post-grunge track is steeped in the band\u2019s signature sonic characteristics: deliberate and forceful percussion, dynamic stabs of guitar, and the recognizable drawl of singer Vinnie Dombroski.<\/p>\n If that song is a document of present-day Sponge, the remainder of the upcoming comp is a flashback to where they came from, before they were even called Sponge. As the story goes, the Detroit band \u2014 originally known as Loudmouth in a cameo during the film Point Break<\/em> \u2014 had reinvented itself under the moniker Electric Cattle Gods in 1992.<\/p>\n Related Video<\/p>\n That band name was to be emblazoned across the marquee of the now-shuttered Ritz Concert Hall on Gratiot and Frazho in Roseville, Michigan. But club owner Joe Sgrol had to inform the upstart group: \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough letters for that!\u201d<\/p>\n The band replied: \u201cDo you have enough letters for \u2018Sponge\u2019?\u201d And it turns out Sgrol did.<\/p>\n The upcoming compilation contains 11 never-before-heard demos and rehearsal recordings from before that exchange, during the short-lived Electric Cattle Gods era. Some would later be recorded for the band\u2019s 1994 major label debut Rotting Pi\u00f1ata<\/em>, among them \u201cDrownin,\u2019\u201d Sponge\u2019s breakout hit \u201cMolly (16 Candles),\u201d the B-side \u201cCowboy Eyes,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n Stream \u201cWet Brain\u201d below, and see the artwork and tracklist for Electric Cattle Gods \u2013 The Lost Tracks<\/em>, which can be pre-ordered on vinyl and CD via Cleopatra Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n