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, released on April 27, 2017, through Columbia Records. It is composed of three songs that precede the band's third full-length studio album, '' Sacred Hearts Club''.

Background

In 2016, Foster the People performed three brand new songs at the Rocking the Daisies Music Festival, "Pay the Man", "Lotus Eater", and " Doing It for the Money", and announced that they would be on their upcoming third studio album. On April 5, 2017, the band announced a headlining summer tour in support of the album. The band released three brand new songs, "Pay the Man", " Doing It for the Money", and "SHC", in the form of the ''III'' EP on April 27, 2017. The tracks are also featured on the band's third studio album, ''Sacred Hearts Club'', released on July 21, 2017. The album was the first studio album to feature longtime touring musicians Sean Cimino and Isom Innis as official members. The band collaborated with OneRepublic frontman

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, who served as co-writer on the song " Doing It for the Money". The band came under fire by the

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's acclaimed 2016 release, Low Teens with both covers utilizing a near identical format. The band has never responded or acknowledged the similarities.

Track listing

SHC's length was cut by six seconds on the full album, resulting in a time of 4:08.

Personnel

Foster the People * Mark Foster – lead vocals, guitar, drums, percussion, piano, programming, synthesizer, vibraphone, songwriting, production * Mark Pontius – drums, percussion, songwriting * Sean Cimino – guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals * Isom Innis – piano, keyboards, drums, percussion, backing vocals, songwriting, production Additional personnel *

– songwriter * Adam Schmalholz – songwriter * Keinan Abdi Warsame – songwriter * Justin Mohrle – songwriter * Derek "MixedByAli" Ali – mixing engineer *

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– mixing engineer * Chris Galland – mixing engineer *

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– mixing engineer * Martin Cooke – mixing engineer * Nicolas Fournier – mixing engineer * Jeff Jackson – assistant engineer * Robin Florent – assistant engineer * Cyrus Taghipour – assistant engineer * Tyler Page – assistant engineer *

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– mastering engineer *

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– producer, songwriter * Oliver "Oligee" Goldstein – producer, songwriter * Lars Stalfors – producer, songwriter

References

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