''Raoul EP'' is an 8-track EP by

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band

The Automatic The Automatic (also known as The Automatic Automatic in the U.S.) were a Welsh rock band. The band's final lineup was composed of Robin Hawkins on vocals, bass and synthesisers, James Frost on guitar, synthesisers and backing vocals, Iwan Gri ...

featuring the original versions of singles " Recover" and " Raoul", plus B-sides from the "

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", "Raoul" and "Recover" singles. It was originally released for the European market, but has since been made available in the UK, making it more convenient for fans to get hold of the rarer tracks all on CD. Raoul is the owner of a sandwich shop in

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, who would make the band's sandwiches

History

On 11 May 2006 a video for song "Song6" was uploaded to the band's

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after the song was featured on the "Recover" single earlier that year.myspace
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, "On The Campaign Trail" is featured on both the " Raoul" single and the album ''

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''. "Trophy Wives" is also a b-side to "Raoul", "Night Drive" and "High Tide On Caroline Street" are both featured on the UK release of "

". The only b-sides from ''

'' which are not included on the EP are "Time=Money", which was released with "Recover", and "Easy Target" which was released with "Raoul".

Track listing

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raoul Ep The Automatic albums 2006 EPs