Greg Mendez- First Time / Alone Depeche Mode È Un Sole (It's a

È Un Sole (It's a Sun) was the group's only vinyl full length originally released in 1990 on HAX

Following 2014's folky "Bring It All In" and a cross-country move to Los Angeles

This session of sound research and recording was done in front of a live audience

As she says

the record contains moving depictions of grief and rebirth

Greg Mendez- First Time / Alone Depeche Mode È Un Sole (It's aFirst Time Alone, Greg Mendez's new EP and first release with Dead Oceans, came together in late summer and early fall of 2023; the songs here appear in the order in which they were written, recorded straight to four track in the small spare room of his West Philadelphia apartment. It's a four song arc, a spectral passageway, one brief and fluid body of work that hangs together from the mournful opening of "Mountain Dew Hell" to the pitched up vocals