M4 is an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 recorded by Canadian Indie Rock band Faunts

Faunts

-History:Faunts was formed in the fall of 2000 by two brothers Steve and Tim Batke. Faunts are released on Friendly Fire Recordings. In 2005, their debut album High Expectations/Low Results was well-received. In 2006, a 40-minute EP entitled M4 was released that grew out of music crafted to...

 in 2007. The EP was largely unknown until M4, Pt. II was played over the credits of the 2007 video game Mass Effect

Mass Effect

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Track listing

• 1 - M4, Pt. II (8:18)
• 2 - Sleepwalker (7:43)
• 3 - M4, Pt. I (9:18)
• 4 - Meno Mony Falls (5:53)
• 5 - Of Nature (8:08)

M4 (Part II) Music Video

A music video was made for M4 part II. It was directed by Ryan Bosworth and came with a limited amount of hard-copy M4 EPs. It apparently was the first theatrically styled music video the band filmed. It features the band playing the song in intervals, and for the most part a representation of the song through a personified hierarchy of crabs where a single crab wishes to dominate the space of everyone's sand dune. In the end the crab becomes the only one left, and reflecting on the songs lyrics, ends up being devoured by a bigger predator than itself; seagulls.

Personnel

• Engineer: Graham Lessard
• Mixed by Graham Lessard and Faunts
• Mastered by Phil Demetro
• Artwork Design by Tim Batke and Lindsay Batke