An album of previously unheard Kurt Cobain material is to be released this summer.

Brett Morgen, the person behind the recent Kurt Cobain documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck uncovered a lot of new recordings from the late Nirvana frontman’s private collection and put them together in the new collection. It’s worth noting that the album will be exclusively Kurt Cobain rather than Nirvana.

Morgen said: "We're going to be putting out an amazing album this summer. It 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.

"Once I stepped into Kurt's archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased music and audio, a vast array of art projects - oil paintings, sculptures - countless hours of never-before-seen home movies, and over 4,000 pages of writings."

We seem to be getting a lot of posthumous albums recently with various people “discovering” new material long after the artist’s death. Notable examples from recent years are Michael Jackson and Queen. Granted, with the latter example half of the original members are still involved in the recording process but you have to question at what point you can stop calling the project “Queen” when it’s Freddie Mercury’s voice who band the band so iconic.

Should we entertain these posthumous albums or should we leave respectfully alone once an artist has passed? Many posthumous projects run the risk of feeling as though they have been cobbled together; clumsily packaged to fans who are mourning the death of their idols. Granted, fans have waited a long time for this particular album but in many ways that just makes it much worse.

It has to be questioned as to why this material hasn’t been uncovered sooner. We are all familiar with Cobain’s widow Courtney Love and her rigid defence of the Cobain name but even so, you would have thought that the album could have been put together sooner.

The new Kurt Cobain album may be great and I hope it is but something still feels very wrong and exploitative of the dead.