Album artwork for Unsung Passage by The Dead Tongues

The long-awaited reissue of The Dead Tongues' third album, Unsung Passage, a profound reflection on the emotional architecture of love, loneliness, and life at large. The Dead Tongues is songwriter Ryan Gustafson's long-evolving vehicle for a beautifully fractured vision of folk, country, blues, and cosmic American rock, and Unsung Passage is a first-person reckoning with the things Gustafson, a chronically peripatetic adventurer, has seen enough to sing about.

The ten remarkable tracks of Unsung Passage are long-distance distillations of events lived and places seen and pondered and ultimately poured into reflective anthems for our harried times. During "Like a Dream," a gentle gallop of grinning harmonica and trickling guitar, Gustafson explores the balance of existence from a hillside vantage. He sees the curve of the earth while pondering his need for a paycheck, a moment that eternally pits the banal against the beautiful.This isn't Gustafson's idle speculation about life and the world: these are the realizations of a restless mind, of a songwriter who sings "this old town ain't gonna watch m edie" and means it.

The Dead Tongues

Unsung Passage

Psychic Hotline
Album artwork for Unsung Passage by The Dead Tongues
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£22.99

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Released 25/08/2023Catalogue Number

PSY001LP

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Album artwork for Unsung Passage by The Dead Tongues
CD

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Released 25/08/2023Catalogue Number

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The Dead Tongues

Unsung Passage

Psychic Hotline
Album artwork for Unsung Passage by The Dead Tongues
LP

£22.99

Black
Released 25/08/2023Catalogue Number

PSY001LP

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Album artwork for Unsung Passage by The Dead Tongues
CD

£12.99

Released 25/08/2023Catalogue Number

PSY001CD

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The long-awaited reissue of The Dead Tongues' third album, Unsung Passage, a profound reflection on the emotional architecture of love, loneliness, and life at large. The Dead Tongues is songwriter Ryan Gustafson's long-evolving vehicle for a beautifully fractured vision of folk, country, blues, and cosmic American rock, and Unsung Passage is a first-person reckoning with the things Gustafson, a chronically peripatetic adventurer, has seen enough to sing about.

The ten remarkable tracks of Unsung Passage are long-distance distillations of events lived and places seen and pondered and ultimately poured into reflective anthems for our harried times. During "Like a Dream," a gentle gallop of grinning harmonica and trickling guitar, Gustafson explores the balance of existence from a hillside vantage. He sees the curve of the earth while pondering his need for a paycheck, a moment that eternally pits the banal against the beautiful.This isn't Gustafson's idle speculation about life and the world: these are the realizations of a restless mind, of a songwriter who sings "this old town ain't gonna watch m edie" and means it.