Written by: Alex Green

Ween (Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo) have announced a comprehensive re-release of Chocolate and Cheese.

Packed with 15 previously unreleased tracks that are comprised of outtakes and demos, the 3xLP collection also features the remastered version of the original album.

The 1994 Andrew Weiss-produced album was the Pennsylvania band’s fourth effort and their first to be recorded in a professional studio.

In a statement, Melchiondo explained that he was the band’s archivist and dug around in the Ween vaults for the extra material.

“Keeping with Ween tradition,” he wrote, “Aaron and I probably picked all the wrong songs, mixed them, and now here they are.”

He went on to write: “When I hear it, I feel like I’m listening to an autobiography of our lives in the early to mid-’90s…If it sounds like we had fun making it, we did. That’s kind of what Ween is all about, though.”

Formed in 1984, Ween’s charming and raucous brand of low-fi pop found them signed to Elektra in the early ’90s. Although they were used to four-track home recordings, being on a major label gave them the opportunity to flex more musical muscle and helped expand their idiosyncratic sound.