Release date: 19-01-2006 (originally released in 1988 )

2007 UK 52-track 2LP pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl - In the summer of 1988, Eric Gaffney & Lou Barlow selected and compiled a thirty minute cassette, a clutch of lo-fi, intimate, delicately twisted songcraft and dizzying, perplexing experimentation which became 'The Freed Man'; this 2007 edition recompiles the original tracks alongside it's EPs including further contemporaneous songs, noise and abstraction, ultimately expanding the album's horizons. Sealed in gatefold colour sleeve.

Tracks:
01. Healthy Sick
02. Level Anything
03. Soulmate
04. Ladybugs
05. Close Enough
06. True Hardcore
07. Julienne
08. Wrists
09. Amherst Hanging House
10. McKinley's Lament
11. Solid Brown
12. Narrow Stories
13. Bridge Was You
14. Drifts On Thru
15. Overturns
16. Yellow Submarine
17. Squirrel Freedom Overdrive
18. Little Man
19. Land Of The Lords
20. Bolder
21. Believe
22. Deny
23. Wall Of Doubt
24. Crumbs
25. I Love Me
26. K-Sensa-My
27. Lou Rap
28. Punch In The Nose
29. Resistance To Flo
30. Stop The Wheel
31. Loose N Screw
32. Oak Street Raga
33. Last Day Of School
34. Jealous Evil
35. Moldy Bread
36. Made Real
37. Cindy
38. Nest
39. My Decision
40. Fire Of July
41. Jaundice
42. Design
43. Dance
44. Cyster
45. Powerbroker
46. The Lorax
47. Pig
48. Hung Up
49. Slow To Learn
50. Elements
51. Attention
52. Your Long Journey

"The Freed Man" was one of the first and most crucial releases in the burgeoning lo-fi movement, which would peak in media attention in the mid-90s with the success of Beck, Guided By Voices, and Pavement. But while it helped inspire and define a global movement, there's little trace of that ambition within these tracks. Sebadoh in this incarnation are a cherishably intimate experience. The 70-odd minutes of wayward brilliance collected here offer the listener a rare and recommended opportunity to transport themselves to the weed-hazed bedroom where these scraps, songs, and pranks were recorded, to imbibe deeply of the haywire creativity that went on in these sessions. This deluxe edition re-issue has been re-mastered and includes a whopping 52 tracks on a single disc, including many that haven't seen the light of day until now. Liner notes by Lou Barlow and Eric Gafney.