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Melissa Auf der Maur<\/a> has announced her new album, BASS WOMB ROOM: My \u201990s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings<\/em>, containing previously unheard demos alongside \u201cinterludes\u201d created for her upcoming My \u201990s Rock Photographs<\/em><\/a> book exhibition. Marking her first new music in over 15 years, it\u2019s out September 4th via Envision Records. Check out a preview of the grinding new song \u201cSkip a Beat\u201d below.<\/p>\n BASS WOMB ROOM<\/em> is highlighted by seven previously unreleased demos written and recorded by Auf der Maur on her Tascam 4-track tape recorder in her living room home studios in the 1990s. The Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist primarily began the process on an acoustic guitar, layering her vocals atop while using 4-track tricks such as reversing the cassette or pitch shifting.<\/p>\n Purchase My ’90s Rock Photographs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Lyrics were either streams of consciousness or lifted from her diary, with other instruments including bass, a vintage Ross phaser guitar pedal, and a cheap keyboard. Auf der Maur also used samples of everyday sounds such as a dripping leaky faucet and her camera shutter, which the musician captured with her trusty compact cassette dictaphone. Pre-orders<\/a> of BASS WOMB ROOM<\/em> are ongoing.<\/p>\n Related Video<\/p>\n \u201cI wrote these songs in the context of rising pressure from the major label-driven music industry on myself and my peers to make glossy hit songs to dominate radio airwaves,\u201d Auf der Maur shared in a statement.\u00a0\u201cThese songs are the sound of my internal experimentation and a way of keeping the Montreal art girl alive inside. These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band.\u201d<\/p>\n Besides these archival recordings, BASS WOMB\u00a0ROOM<\/em> features eight new Alex Crow-produced interstitial sound pieces that will score Auf der Maur\u2019s upcoming My \u201990s Rock Photographs<\/em> museum exhibition<\/a> at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Presenting more than 200 personal photographs, the exhibit opens to members on September 2nd and to the public on September 8th. The latter date corresponds with the release date of the 240-page photobook My \u201990s Rock Photographs<\/em>. Pre-order your hardcover copy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n My \u201990s Rock Photographs<\/em> follows the March release of Auf der Maur\u2019s Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A \u201990s Rock Memoir<\/em><\/a>, which encompasses her\u00a0stints in Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins.<\/p>\n