''EP Delicious'' is the debut

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. The extended play was first released on 7 September 2012 through

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. The extended play consists of four tracks, including "Bloodshake" (formerly known by its demo title, "Bblood") and "1998"; a cover of the

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. Both "California Daze" and "Bloodshake" featured in ''

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s 'Top 50 Songs of 2012'; at numbers thirteen and forty-three respectively.

Track listing

Critical reception

The extended play was met with positive reviews, including from Tom Howard—of ''

''—who gave ''EP Delicious'' nine out of a possible ten stars: "Opener "Ocean's Eye" is two minutes of

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at their creepiest and randiest, but twisted into something roguish and chaotic. "Bloodshake"'s guitars and bongo-infused drums are as colourful as a pineapple, papaya and mango salad, and give way to singer Harry Koisser demanding "''Spit blood at the sun, spit blood in the ocean''". "California Daze", meanwhile, is a softer love song about a girl who "''tastes like sunlight''". But most impressive of all is "1998 (Delicious)", on which the Brummie quartet take

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song ever. It builds and teases before bursting into an earful of cymbals and wailing its way to a messy finale. Clever, confident, ambitious. All of it." Mike Diver—of the

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—also praised ''EP Delicious'', reviewing the final track as "The 10-minute 1998 ends this set on a triumphant high, though. A sort of Kraut-kissed

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affair giving way to some

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-recalling comedown psychedelia, it’s a fairly sky-scraping finale. And it’s a perplexing final puzzle piece, confirming this band’s should-be-contenders status without actually nailing down a signature sound.

Release history

References

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