In our countdown of the 14 Legendary Unreleased Albums We’d Kill To Hear, one of the projects that received a particular amount of interest from readers was the planned collaboration between Kurt Cobain and R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe.

While a collaboration between two of the greatest frontmen of alternative rock is certainly a scintillating prospect, we reckon a big part of why it gets fans salivating is simply because it would mean more music from the late great Cobain.

Well, alt-rock fans, your prayers have been answered. As Consequence of Sound reports, coinciding with the DVD/Blu-ray release of Brett Morgen’s much talked-about Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck, Universal will release an album of unreleased Cobain music.

According to Morgen, the as-yet-untitled LP is set to arrive on 6th November, the same day as the film’s physical release. The director said the album will be a diverse selection of content culled from the singer’s secret stash.

In addition to containing all of the music featured in the film, there will be a dozen additional tracks, “audio montages”, and even a comedy sketch. All of the material was organized by Morgen after culling through “hours upon hours” of Cobain’s personal archives.

“[It’s] curated to feel as though one were sitting in Kurt’s living room watching him create over the course of an afternoon,” Morgen told Billboard. The songs reportedly range “from thrash to ragtime and everything in between”.

“These are all just Kurt by himself with the guitar,” Morgen added. “These aren’t multi-track, finished songs or work-ups, but they’re extraordinary, and I think they provide a tremendous insight into his [creative] process. I think they further our understanding of Kurt, both as a musician and as a man.”

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