Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P.

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Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P.
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EP by
Released2001
Genre Indie rock
Label V2 Records
Producer Jason Lytle
Grandaddy chronology
The Sophtware Slump
(2000)
Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P.
(2001)
Concrete Dunes
(2002)

Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P. is an EP by the indie rock band Grandaddy. It was released in 2001 on V2 Records. All of the songs had previously appeared as B-sides to the band's European singles.

Contents

Release

Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P. was released in 2001.

It was later included in some two-disc editions of The Sophtware Slump .

Reception

Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P. reached number 21 in the "Top 75" of CMJ New Music Monthly 's August 2001 edition. [1] Upon the 2011 release of the deluxe edition of The Sophtware Slump, BBC Music reviewer Mike Diver notes that "fans will be pleased to get their ears around material" from Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P.. [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jason Lytle.

No.TitleLength
1."First Movement/Message Fade"3:48
2."Our Dying Brains"4:43
3."What Can't Be Erased"4:21
4."Wives of Farmers"3:38
5."Street Bunny"2:01
6."XD-Data II"4:53

Personnel

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References

  1. "Top 75". CMJ New Music Monthly . CMJ Network, Inc (95): 96. August 2001. ISSN   1074-6978 . Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  2. Diver, Mike (2011). "BBC – Music – Review of Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump – Deluxe Edition". BBC Music . Retrieved December 12, 2014.