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[jimbunny]

I'll be upfront -- the reason I'm asking is because each month, as I'm using up the last of my 50 downloads from emusic, there's always that point at which I don't have enough to get a whole album. I usually end up looking for an album with just a few tracks, but this usually limits me in terms of genre (post-rock, classical, a few others). Getting an album incomplete just bugs me.

But I wouldn't actually put this out there if it wasn't interesting to me anyway. Guaranteed, emusic isn't going to have most of what anybody lists, but it'd still be cool to know. Never really mind the definitions; just relatively short or incomplete, or however you think of it.

[Jackie Blue]

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK - SALLY FREE AND EASY

[Sox]

Noyes!
Make Believe!
Vs. The Greatest Of All Time!
Burst and Bloom!

[Caspian]

Jesu's Silver is an excellent slab of heavy-ish shoegaze, very pretty and heavy etc etc. The title track in particular is something you should download. Easily my favourite EP.

[Jackie Blue]

^^^^^ I agree with this as well.

[Tom]

The Frog Eyes - Emboldened Navigator or Sunset Rubdown's s/t ep

[Kai]

I second Jesu and Cursive's Burst and Bloom and the Make Believe EP.

I really like Low's Songs for a Dead Pilot EP.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy released an EP last year I think called Ask Forgiveness.
WINDOWLICKER.
Agalloch's White EP was pretty neat.

[valley_parade]

Noyes!

This. 

I have an emotional attachment to Green Day's "Slappy", but that's because it was the first piece of vinyl I ever bought.

[Thrillho]

Hope of the States - Blood Meridian (if you can get it) - Post-rock but with vocals. All three b-sides are superior to the subsequent album, particularly 'Under The Wires'

Funeral for a Friend - Seven Ways To Scream Your Name - A compilation of their first two EPs, this is just about the best they ever got before going poppier.

Dilinger Escape Plan and Mike Patton - Irony Is A Dead Scene - Utterly bonkers hardcore/metal/jazz/funk/whatever. If Mr. Bungle got stupidly heavy, it'd sound like this - AWESOME.

[negative creep]

The Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age split is pretty awesome. It counts as EP, right?

[suitupletsgo]

Dilinger Escape Plan and Mike Patton - Irony Is A Dead Scene - Utterly bonkers hardcore/metal/jazz/funk/whatever. If Mr. Bungle got stupidly heavy, it'd sound like this - AWESOME.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

[Inlander]

Over the last year the E.P. I've been listening to more than any other has been the Bobby Malone Moves Home E.P. by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Tomorrow I'll doubtless think of many more.

[rynne]

Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Sløw Riøt Før New Zerø Kanada E.P.  I am of the opinion that if you own just one GYBE release, this is the one you should have.  "Moya" is their best track ever.

Orbital – The Box and The Future Sound of London – New Kingdom.  Both have the same approach: take your album's lead single and expand it to a multi-part work spanning the better part of a half-hour.  The Box is especially impressive with its awesome harpsichord breakdown and vocal reprise.

Ministry – In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (Live).  I don't know if this is technically an EP.  It's six songs in <40 minutes, so it's a short album at least, right?  The bottom line is that it's the best versions of the best songs from the best Ministry albums.

[Christophe]

1. The Good Life - Lovers Need Lawyers
2. Polvo- Celebrate the New Dark Age
3. Rademacher- Rademacher EP, Ice Age EP, Heart Machine EP (yay local music!)

[imapiratearg]

I don't think I have that many EPs, but the ones that spring to mind are British Sea Power's Krankenhaus EP and Cursive's Burst and Bloom EP.  Mission of Burma's Signals, Calls, and Marches is pretty sick, too.

[Sox]

I forgot that Bedheads "The Dark Ages" EP contains the best Bedhead song ever recorded, I should add that to my list too.

[michaelicious]

I think the "Rome (Written Upside Down)" EP is probably Les Savy Fav's best stuff. I've listened to it almost every day for the past 8 years and I'm still not tired of it. 

[Sox]

*headslap*
Solkwirm! You Are Dignified! Chokes!

[tommydski]

Chokes! might just take it for me. Such incredible songs.

I also love Rome, The Dark Ages and Signals, Calls and Marches. These are all great records.

[jimbunny]

Cool beans, everybody.

[sean]

The Pirate Ship Quintet - The Pirate Ship Quintet EP

This release, which came out last year, is one of my favorite post-rock releases ever. It is sooooo good. They play their post-rock like a sad Yndi Halda with trumpet, cello, and piano added in. It is absolutely gorgeous. Highly recommended.

I also second (third, fourth?) the Jesu and Godspeed.

[a pack of wolves]

A lot of my favourite music is not on albums.

Stand - True Romance CD mini-album - Probably my favourite metalcore record of all time. Intelligent, inventive and it has those great bits where he just speaks in a Grimsby accent.
Knifed/Limp Wrist - split 7" - Utterly raging queercore from the US and Eire. A superb team-up, and I love the skit on the Limp Wrist side.
Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon/xCanaanx - split 7" - Yeah, the xCanaanx side's a bit shit. But these are easily the best TSUA songs, that chuggy mosh part in Drone crushes skulls. Immense.
Discharge - Realities of War 7" - Best d-beat record ever. It's just so dirty and full of rage.
Caustic Soda - Femalevolence 7" - It's a bit like if Jawbreaker were a bunch of kids from Australia who made pop-punk.
Slint - s/t 10" - Not their greatest material admittedly, but it's leagues ahead of Tweez and a good addition to their discography.
Melt-Banana - 666" - I kind of love these weird formats, even if they are an arse for some people's record players. Talking of which...
Orthrelm/Trencher - 5" - Ridiculous nonsense that makes Hella sound pop versus casio abusing Londoners. Awesome.
Honey Honey - s/t 7" - This is the only record I ever heard of this band making. German I think? Brilliant hardcore/post-hardcore.
D.S.-13 - Thrash And Burn 7" - I wish I had the 6" version of this. Very hard to pick a favourite D.S.-13 EP, this one is very consistently raging though.
V/A - For Want Of... 7" - It has Torches To Rome, Christie Front Drive, Baby Harp Seal and In/Humanity on it. 'Nuff said.
The Male Nurse - My Own Private Patrick Swayze 7" - I forget what this is b/w, it's not brilliant. But the first side is amazing, a Scottish voice lazily tells us about how he uses the one foot high Patrick Swayze that lives under his bed over clanking music.
John Henry West - s/t 7" - A classic bit of Gravity styled hardcore that verges on emo.

[tommydski]

Another one just occured to me.

The truly incredible Deerhoof Free EP of covers and live in the studio tracks.

[ElctrcMyhm]

I'm going to bump Mission of Burma's Signals, Calls, and Marches.

Additionally, I would like to add Devotchka's Curse Your Little Heart, on which they cover songs like Siouxsie & the Banshees' "The Last Beat of My Heart" and The Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs" in their crazy gypsy-rock style.

Also, Psi Com's one and only self-titled release from 1985, which you should acquire if you want to hear what Perry Farrell sounded like pre-Janes Addiction when he was caught up in the Bauhaus goth scene.

[TheFuriousWombat]

These are a few that come to mind right away:

Although not at all EP length time-wise, all "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" releases except 'Yanqui UXO' are only a few tracks at most and, as far as an emusic download goes, one of the best values out there.

"Looking for Things/Searching for Things" by SF based noise/post-rock/drone/ambient/ect. band "Tarentel" is also an absolutely amazing 2 song release, as is their split with "Rothko."

The only EP by, for my money, one of the best ambient solo projects out there, "Eluvium," is called 'When I Live by the Garden and the Sea' and it's incredibly beautiful.

'The Sea and Rhythm' by "Iron and Wine" is one of that band's best releases by far.

"MONO"s 'Memoria dal Futuro' EP is one really fantastic song and a rather shortish outro from, for me, arguably among the very best "post-rock" band out there.

"Sigur Ros"s 'Hoppipolla' EP is awesome because it has a revised studio recording of 'Hafsol,' one of the band's best songs.

[De_El]

I agree a lot with the GY!BE EP named, Cursive's Burst and Bloom, and Mission of Burma's Signals, Calls, and Marches.

Also: Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey and At the Drive-In - Vaya

[Jackie Blue]

If by some freak chance you don't have any GY!BE, then yes, get the EP and Lift Yr Skinny Fists...

Though I disagree that "Moya" is their best song, I'd say it's second to the first 15 minutes of Lift Yr Long Fucking Album Title.

[The Viz]

The Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution's 2001 EP "A Call to Arms" (the only thing they've yet to actually record) is fucking fantastic.  Easily my favorite EP. Other great listens" The Flaming Lips' self-titled EP, Suburban Legends' self-titled, Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer's "Popsicle" EP, and This Charming Man (the band that would later become the Gaslight Anthem)'s "Every Little Secret EP."  The new Bomb the Music Industry/O Pioneers split EP is also really awesome if you're into good punk rock.

[Ballard]

Kavinsky's Dead Cruiser Mini LP is the only one I can think of that hasn't already been suggested.

Fantastic French electro.

[fangsanalsatan]

+

Aereogramme - Seclusion  (6 songs)  their best output imo.
Aussitôt Mort - 6 Songs EP  (6 songs obviously)  french screamo.
Boris - Akuma No Uta  (6 songs again)  contains some of the best non-drone Boris moments.
Gregor Samsa - 27:36  (3 songs)  maybe their best release so far, my favourite for sure.
Pela - All in Time  (5 songs)  good stuff.
Pelican - s/t  (4 songs)  BEAST.

[TheFuriousWombat]

That Meshuggah EP is absolutely insane. That may be the most aurally crushing 30 minutes out there.

[Tehz]

Airbag/How Am I Driving? - Radiohead
Vs. The Greatest of All Time - Archers of Loaf
Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin

[amok]

'Hemvagen' by Detektivbyrån is basically perfect.

Also 'Woman King.'

[valley_parade]

How the hell did I forget God Don't Make No Trash *or* Up Your Ass With Broken Glass?

God, I love The Falcon. "Look Ma, No Fans!" is the best song they've ever done.

[Caspian]

Pelican - s/t  (4 songs)  BEAST.

YES YES YES YES YS YES YES YES YES

THIS IS HUGE.

Seriously, BIGGEST GUITAR TONE EVER. I wish pelican had kept this up instead of playing their soppy post-rock stuff.

AND AGAIN: JESU.

That Meshuggah EP is absolutely insane. That may be the most aurally crushing 30 minutes out there.

Do they actually play more then one different note in that EP? The rhythmic work is amazing, everything else.. not so.

[Broken_Drum]

Trans Canada Highway- Boards Of Canada,
Windowlicker- Aphex Twin,
Hospitality- Venetian Snares.

[Jackie Blue]

Airbag/How Am I Driving? - Radiohead

YES.  Those songs should have been on OK Computer.  "Polyethylene" is better than "Electioneering" any day.

[Lummer]

I really, really like Baroness' debut EP, the snappily-titled "First".

"Tower Falls" is bar none the best song they've written ever. Also, the Meshuggah EP is seconded. The Riff that that comes in around the 10:30 mark, the über-groovy midtempo thing that's actually in a straight 4/4 beat sounds like the universe convulsing.

[Yakob]

[Broken_Drum]

The Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age split is pretty awesome. It counts as EP, right?

Forgot to say this, great EP. I love Spiders And Vinegaroons.

[sean]

I wish pelican had kept this up instead of playing their soppy post-rock stuff.

FIGHT YOU

[a pack of wolves]

No, he's right. That EP has their only good music on it. When I saw them play they started out with that and then descended into rubbish.

[Caspian]

Australasia had it's moments, though.

[Spluff]

I guess this means I need to get the Pelican EP, if it's so much better than the rest of their stuff.

Thanks for the tip, good sir/ettes.

[sean]

No, he's right. That EP has their only good music on it. When I saw them play they started out with that and then descended into rubbish.

I agree that the EP is really good. But like TheFuriousWombat, I am a post-rock kinda guy for the most part. I thoroughly enjoyed Australasia and The Fire in our Throats will Beckon the Thaw.

However, City of Echos was rather weak and pitiful, especially for Pelican. Poor show.

[Kai]

Oh oh oh! How could I have forgotten Ad Astra Per Aspera's Cubic Zirconium EP? It's not perfect (nothing they ever do is perfect), but it has easily their best song, I Am the Palm Tree.

[JimmyJazz]

Room to Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!) summarizes everything awesome about the Fall in 33 minutes. Sure it's too long for an EP, but it's also short for an album. If it doesn't make the cut for this thread, then the Fall's Slates EP is awesome too.

[Kai]

Hell, The Fall in general is just an exceptional band.

[Jooooosh]

Aesop Rock- Appleseed

To me, the perfect rap cd.

[SenorGoose]

best ep? NOFX - The decline...