CD including extensive sleeve notes. Also available on 2x 12" gatefold vinyl and download.
A dazzling collection of EPs that consistently redefined the boundaries. This compilation gathers together for the first time all five long-out-of-print EPs which were originally released between 1992–95, a perfect sequential overview of the band’s development and the sheer breadth of ideas they explored.
**** Mojo
**** Uncut
**** Rolling Stone
9.4 Pitchfork
9/10 Drowned In Sound
"We're hated... and the reason we're hated is that we're 'pretentious' enough to try for something."
Ian Crause, quoted in Melody Maker, March
Read More + March 5, 1994
“The whole is much greater than the sum of its parts… one of the most creative uses of sampling I’ve ever heard. It sounds like the future. I’m still figuring out just how cool they are.” Ben Goldwasser, MGMT quoted in Q Magazine, January 2011
All purchases of The 5EPs made through the One Little Indian store come with a 7″ record sized collectors booklet which features an indepth article by Ned Raggett published with the kind permission of Pitchfork.com. The article contains interviews with the band and many other collaborators about the making of the original EPs.
The release is part of One Little Indian's Totem Series