After the departure of Bryan Szymanski and Matt Glass from the band in June of 2005 they recruited Dave Chisholm and Nate Leslie to fill their respective roles. In July the newly reformed band recorded an EP of their new material, self titling it to represent the bands new identity…or something.
It’s believed that the EP release show took place on August 20th, 2005 at Kilby Court and the band shared a couple tracks from it on their website the next day. The EP was sold at shows on CDrs with multicolored slim jewel cases, though an extremely rare CD version does exist (that we would love a rip of if you happen to be blessed with owning such a thing).
Trivia
All but one of the tracks from this EP later made their way onto the bands next album, Goodnight, and Have a Pleasant Tomorrow. The odd one out is Queen Of The Valley, that both band members and fans alike spoke poorly of on the message boards. Unrelated it is the person constructing this wikis favorite Brobecks song. You bastards.
The track I’ll Break Your Arm seems to have had a shorter title originally according to the bands website, though Non-CDr copies of the EP with a printed track list do not shorten the tracks title. It’s just as likely it was an accident.
To elaborate on the iffy release date for this EP, the band finished recording it right at the end of July. On August 8th Matt Glass posted about the EP on his website, possibly implying it was already available. However the band only posted about it on their website on August 21st, a significant date as one of the many live discs from the band that have surfaced is from a show the night before at Kilby Court. The band did many release shows this way, and it seems likely that the reason this disc exists in the first place is that it was a release show the band wanted to save. None of these sources give us a cemented confirmed release date, just what’s most likely.
