Charles Douglas - Statecraft (2004)

Statecraft brims with skewed, gritty pop tunes like "Free at Last," "Blues for Catalina," "Ancient Mysteries" and "Splitting the Atom," and it suggests that Charles Douglas was at the culmination of his demented artistic powers. But unfortunately, Douglas didn't see it that way. Unhappy with the album's protracted recording process, and concerned about relapsing into the substance abuse which had left him briefly homeless a few years earlier, he left New York City and abandoned the sessions. When he walked out of the studio in 2002, he never returned. Instead, he sold and gave away all his instruments and moved to North Carolina and quit music forever, turning down a major label record deal in the process. Wharton Tiers ended up mixing and sequencing sixteen of the songs, and overseeing the initial release of Statecraft in 2004 on a subsidiary of Virgin Records. Despite the initial burst of acclaim, the album quickly drifted into obscurity. But luckily, the story doesn't end there…

Tracklist:
1.01 - Charles Douglas - Free At Last (2:50)
1.02 - Charles Douglas - Crackerjack (3:17)
1.03 - Charles Douglas - Ancient Mysteries (1:56)
1.04 - Charles Douglas - Blues for Catalina (2:46)
1.05 - Charles Douglas - Beneath the Flowers (2:42)
1.06 - Charles Douglas - The Island (3:09)
1.07 - Charles Douglas - Splitting the Atom (2:57)
1.08 - Charles Douglas - I Don't Care (2:20)
1.09 - Charles Douglas - Close to Me (3:07)
1.10 - Charles Douglas - Revelation in Chapel Hill (4:20)
1.11 - Charles Douglas - The Day of Creation (3:04)
1.12 - Charles Douglas - Statecraft (3:00)
1.13 - Charles Douglas - Take it Off (2:59)
1.14 - Charles Douglas - Game Over (1:59)
1.15 - Charles Douglas - Change The World (3:03)
1.16 - Charles Douglas - The Rabbit Never Gets the Carrot, Part Two (2:25)