Release Date: 2012
About this album: Currently in magical-music-making production. As more details emerge, they'll be on this page. Everything here about the album is, of course, subject to change.
Q&A Session: An August 2009 Question & Answer Session about Hem's Twelfth Night album also includes Dan Messe talking about making this album and what to expect on it. A June 29, 2011 radio interview also has Dan talking a bit about this album (Hem's part starts at about 1 hour, 34 minutes).
Album size: 25 tracks and counting per 27 April 2009 tweet. Update April 2011: This album's now likely to be split into two separate albums.
Lyrics: Find some full lyrics here for the songs noted below as already being available online in some way, and look below for a bunch of links to lyric snippets
Possible album tracks:
1. Better Days
Bonus info: used in the Liberty Mutual carnival TV commercial; Hem re-tooling the song per December 14, 2011 update
2. Bird Song
Bonus info: used in the Liberty Mutual soccer TV commercial and released at Hem's website April 23, 2008 (not available now during website redesign); Lyrics
3. Gently Down The Stream
Bonus info: used in the Liberty Mutual election TV commercial and released at Hem's website April 30, 2008 (not available now during website redesign); lyric snippets here and here
4. Seven Angels
Bonus info: discussed in a blog post; now streaming at Hem's MySpace; available on the benefit album Joey's Song; lyric snippet here (full lyric link above)
5. Things Are Not Perfect In Our Yard
Bonus info: used in the Liberty Mutual wallet TV commercial and released at Hem's website April 9, 2008 (not available now during website redesign); Lyrics; cheeky lyric snippet here
6. A Wolf in the Woods
Bonus info: A sort of prequel to A-Hunting We Will Go; rumor is that it's reminiscent of "A Day In The Life" by The Beatles; lyric snippets here and here
7. The World Is Outside
Bonus info: used in the Liberty Mutual snowball TV commercial and released at Hem's website April 16, 2008 (not available now during website redesign); Lyrics; lyric snippet here
8. Unlucky
Bonus info: early title of the EP Home Again, Home Again; mentioned as new album song on Twitter
9. The Tides at the Narrows
Bonus info: mentioned as new album song on Twitter and on 15 April 2009 on Facebook; lyric snippet here
10. Walking Past The Graveyard, Not Breathing
Bonus info: illustrated years ago at MySpace (picture link broken there - see illustration here); mentioned as new album song on Twitter; lyric snippet here
11. No Word From Tom
Bonus info: The album with this name gets a title track a few years later; mentioned as new album song on Twitter and Facebook; lyric snippet here; making-of video here
12. Traveler's Song
Bonus info: Available in August 2010 on the Ear To The Ground: No Depression sampler as a free download; lyric snippet here (full lyric link above)
13. Do Over
Bonus info: mentioned as new album song on Twitter
14. Last Call
Bonus info: A sort of sequel to When I Was Drinking. Mentioned as new album song on Twitter - twice. Lyric snippet here and here
15. The Jackpine
Bonus info: mentioned as new album song on Twitter; Used to be called "Man-O-War"; Little Silver has played this song live; a jack pine is a tree that only seeds when burned; lyric snippets here and here
16. Overnight To Santa Rosa
Bonus info: mentioned on 15 April 2009 as a new album instrumental song on Facebook back when it was called "Underwater, Overnight"
17. You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones cover)
Bonus info: Unnamed Rolling Stones cover mentioned 25 April 2009 as new album song on Twitter and on Facebook here and here; demo version now streaming at Hem's Facebook page; available on the compilation Paint It Black May 17, 2011; unlikely to end up on Departure and Farewell; lyric snippet here
18. Departure and Farewell
Bonus info: the title track (obviously) and first track; lyric snippets here, here, here, and here
19. So Long
Bonus info: the album's closing song; possibly featuring enough horns and brass to feed an army; lyric snippets here, here, and here
20. The Seed
Bonus info: Lyric snippet here
21. Scissor Beats Paper
22. Place Names
Bonus info: may not end up on the album but instead be released somewhere at some point as a bonus track; lyric snippet here
23. Tourniquet
Bonus info: heavy on the Brooklyn geography; lyric snippet here
24. Half Acre
Bonus info: a different take on the song first appearing on Rabbit Songs
25. Soft Landing
Bonus info: a song by Dan and Steve; lyric snippet here
26. Identical Snowflakes
Bonus info: a holiday song; lyric snippet here (full lyrics here); released Dec. 2011 as a single
27. Long for this World
Bonus info: Mentioned on Facebook as a new song (23 Jan. 2012)
28. The One I'm Thinking Of
Bonus info: Mentioned on Facebook as a new song (23 Jan. 2012)
29. Cowardly Lions
Bonus info: Mentioned on Facebook as a new song (25 Jan. 2012)
30. Broken Record
Bonus info: Mentioned on Facebook as a new song (25 Jan. 2012)
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