''To Before'' is a double album of

Comsat Angels The Comsat Angels were an English post-punk band from Sheffield, England, initially active from 1978 to 1995. Their music has been described as "abstract pop songs with sparse instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form ...

demos and outtakes, released on CD by Renascent in 2007. The selected tracks covered the years 1978 to 1993 and were salvaged from old cassette tapes, DATs and bootlegs. The first disc documented some of the earliest years of the band and included the entire "Red Planet" three-track single, the Comsat Angels' first record. The second disc contains demo versions of songs from later albums, plus three finished tracks from the album '' Fire on the Moon''. Comsats frontman

Stephen Fellows Stephen Fellows is an English singer, songwriter and musician. From 1978 to 1995, he was frontman for the band The Comsat Angels. He also managed the band Gomez and helped guide the band the Little Glitches Little Glitches are a folktronic ...

said of ''To Before'', "Some of

he tracks He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...

are a tad rough — it's a bit warts-and-all in places! But I guess it shows what we were trying to do".Steve Fellows interview with Mark Finnigan, ''Record Collector'' magazine, February 2007

Track listing

Disc One

#"Mass (Demo)" – 4:06 #"Have You Seen (Demo)" – 3:03 #"Work (Demo)" – 4:04 #"I Get Excited" (

B-side The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record compan ...

) – 2:56 #"The House That... (Demo)" – 4:40 #"Red Planet" (single

A-side The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record company ...

) – 2:41 #"Specimen No 2" (B-side) – 2:29 #"Eye of the Lens (Demo)" – 4:14 #"You Never Learn (Demo)" – 3:31 #"Tilted (Demo)" – 3:22 #"Island Heart (Demo)" – 4:06 #"Time to Burn (Demo)" – 4:19

Disc Two

#"Lost Continent (Demo)" – 4:40 #"Something's Got to Give (Demo)" – 3:49 #"You Move Me (Demo)" – 3:51 #"Carried Away (Demo)" – 4:12 #"Born Again (Demo)" – 4:02 #"Ice Sculpture" – 4:44 #"She's Invisible" – 3:58 #"Under the Influence (Demo)" – 4:26 #"I.K.T.F. (Demo)" – 4:08 #"Transport of Delight" – 3:24 #"Venus Hunter (Demo)" – 6:09 #"There's Something Going On (Demo)" – 3:28

Personnel

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*Andy Peake -

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

, vocals *

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bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Mik Glaisher -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

{{reflist The Comsat Angels albums 2007 compilation albums Demo albums