Kurt Cobain's rare solo album to be released this summer

Brett Morgen, who directed the late singer’s documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, has announced plans to release a posthumous album. During an interview with Bedford + Bowery , Mr. Morgen revealed that this new project was due for release this summer. He said, “This album of home recordings will feel like you’re kind of hanging out with Kurt Cobain on a hot summer day in Olympia, Washington as he fiddles about. It’s going to really surprise people.”

He added that this album will be unlike all of Cobain’s previous musical ventures with Nirvana. “It’s just Kurt and you’re going to hear him do things you never expected to come out of him,” he said.

Mr. Morgen said the idea to make the album came during his preparation for

Montage of Heck after he found numerous cassettes featuring 200 hours of “never-before-heard or rarely heard music” including his records with wife, Courtney Love, demo tapes and covers of The Beatles’ songs.