Here are five demos. They're raw, but capture first instincts and intial takes. The first three tracks here are previously unreleased, and are being shared for the first time via Song Exploder.
Julia Holter - Pushkin (Unreleased Demo)
https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/julia-holter-pushkin-unreleased-demo
This is the gorgeous, previously unreleased piano demo of Julia Holter's song "Horns Surrounding Me" (featured on the most recent episode of Song Exploder). Before she wrote her own lyrics for the song, she used the lines from the Aleksandr Pushkin poem "A Nightingale and a Rose."
The Album Leaf - The Light (Unreleased Demo)
https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/the-album-leaf-the-light-unreleased-demo
Fans of Scandal will recognize this, because the final version of the song is used in the show as the love theme for Oliva and Fitz.
Valley Lodge - Go (Unreleased Demo)
https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/valley-lodge-go-unreleased-demo
Here's Dave Hill's original demo, recorded all himself, of the song that would later become the theme to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Sufjan Stevens - Take Me
https://soundcloud.com/tumblr-ghetto/take-me
Sufjan Stevens wrote that this dreamy track was a "repetitive lo-fi pop demo I found under my desk."
Elliott Smith - Waltz #1 (Demo)
http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Tape+Op/192913
"Waltz No. 1" was first featured in Tape Op Magazine's Creative Music Recordings collection.
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Most recent Song Exploder episode:
Julia Holter - Horns Surrounding Me
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Thanks for listening,
Hrishikesh