Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like

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Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like
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ReleasedJuly 9, 2002 (2002-07-09)
Genre Dance-punk
Alternative rock
Post-punk revival
Length11:40
Label Mute Records
Liars chronology
They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
(2002)
Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like
(2002)
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [2]
Pitchfork Media 8.8/10 [3]
PopMatters (positive) [4]
The Village Voice Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [5]

Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like is an EP by post-punk band Liars. It was released on July 9, 2002 on Mute Records' subsidiary Blast First, then on November 12 later that year on Mute itself, both as a 10" and as a CD. [6] [7] The first two songs are originals and the third is a more raw version of the opening track of their debut album, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top . [1]

Track listing

  1. Pillars Were Hollow and Filled With Candy, So We Tore Them Down
  2. Every Day Is a Child With Teeth
  3. Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That

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