Tue Apr 03, 2018 11:34 am
100 Baby Spiders is actually a very early Dead Cities track from late '95.
The sessions for what would have been LP5 began in late '96 and brought about Shining Path (Sendoro Luminoso and Peel Session versions), Tudor Oak (Exchanged), Thinking About Thinking About Thinking (Private Psyche and Inner Life), Trying to Make Impermanent Things Permanent, Popadom, Headhunter, plus unreleased tracks East Pacifica, How to Be a Genuine Fake and very early versions of what eventually became Chawawah, Theram, The Peppermint Tree and Indian Swing. It was long assumed that Glacier was also planned for the album, but it has its roots in Glass (hence the title). One of the two versions on Environments 2 is actually a remix by Max Richter (hence his name in the credits), although I don't know which version. I Turn to Face the Sun was updated in recent years, I believe the 1997 version is a slightly different mix. Apparently they were both big fans of the track, even after they'd turned away from the Dead Cities sound, which is actually why it was chosen as the third single - but by this point they were already knee-deep in psychedelia and Gaz in particular wanted to leave it behind.