"Doomed From the Start" is a cassette-only compilation collecting demos, live recordings, rarities & unreleased music from members of the New Friends Fest '26 family, including The Caution Children, Dikembe, Joliette, Poetry of Torch, Star 99, and more.

Side A:

Coup D’État - On Staying Put (Re-Record)
Demersal - Du Ligner Din Far
Cienfuegos - Confesional
Insomniak - Auto E
Joliette - Limítrofe (Live @ Solidar Rock Fest, Milan)
The Names of Our Friends - Disidentification

Side B:

The Names of Our Friends - Hymn
boxcutter - raptured (demo)
Poetry of Torch - 終わりの始まり (beginning of the end)
Dikembe - Them Then (Demo)
The Caution Children - Our Movement in Squares (Remastered)
Star 99 - Gaman (Demo)