Behave Yourself (EP)

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Behave Yourself
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ReleasedDecember 21, 2009 (2009-12-21)
Recorded2009
Genre Indie rock, soul
Length14:37
Label Downtown, V2
Producer Matt Wignall [1]
Cold War Kids chronology
Live from the Paradiso
(2008)
Behave Yourself
(2009)
Mine Is Yours
(2011)
Singles from Behave Yourself
  1. "Audience"
    Released: December 1, 2009 [2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 66/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk (79%) [4]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Prefix7.0/10.0 [6]
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

'Behave Yourself' is the seventh EP by the American indie rock band Cold War Kids. It was released on iTunes December 21, 2009 [8] and the physical version was released on January 19, 2010.

Contents

The EP was announced on their official website on October 26, 2009. A 1-minute teaser trailer was uploaded to YouTube the same day. To promote the album, they played four shows in support of the release, [9] with Flashy Python as a supporting act. The EP's artwork reads "These songs were recorded some time between " Loyalty " and now. They didn't belong there but kept hanging around, started trouble, made friends, and insisted they be heard". "Sermons" is a re-recording of the track "Sermons vs. the Gospel" that initially appeared on the With Our Wallets Full EP and as a hidden track at the end of their full-length debut Robbers & Cowards . The digital release debuted at number 177 on the Billboard 200. [10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Audience"3:02
2."Coffee Spoon"3:54
3."Santa Ana Winds"2:31
4."Sermons vs. the Gospel"4:33
5."Baby Boy"0:37

Personnel

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