Released 8 years ago today, this is the fourth EP from alternative rock band meWithoutYou. It was released just a month and a half before what would become their seventh and final studio album, also titled [untitled]. I'll admit, I loved the earlier meWithoutYou albums and EPs and did not really get into their later stuff much. Their earlier music seemed to have a bit more of nu-metal edge to them—a passionate, hard edge to the songs—while by this time it was mostly lead vocalist Aaron Weiss whispering nearly unintelligibly over pretty pedestrian rock instrumentation. Maybe I didn't give these albums their fair shake. I also thought, at least at the time, that releasing a 7-song EP of songs that were not on their album coming weeks later was a bit odd too. But maybe I should have come to expect oddness from this band. Aaron Weiss's poetry is certainly odd and the band's musicianship is more interesting than I remember on my previous listen or two, so I probably just never gave this EP a chance. I guess I need to give this band with a cult following another shake on their later music.

Release Year: 2018
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