Medea is the debut EP by Michou

Michou

Michou is a folk rock band from Windsor, Ontario.Michou's first release is 2007's EP, MedeaMichou's first studio album is titled Myshkin, released 2008 in Canada,...

. It was recorded in two days by founding members Michael Hargreaves, Ryan Ard, Ryan Frith, Lucas Semple and Sasha Appler in the home

Home

A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...

 of friend Joel Bruyere

Thousand Foot Krutch

Thousand Foot Krutch is a Canadian Christian rock band formed in 1995. They have released five major studio albums: Set It Off , Phenomenon , The Art of Breaking , The Flame In All of Us , and Welcome to the Masquerade . They also have one live album, Live at the Masquerade...

 and released on November 24th, 2007.

The title of this album is an example of Michou's

Michou

Michou is a folk rock band from Windsor, Ontario.Michou's first release is 2007's EP, MedeaMichou's first studio album is titled Myshkin, released 2008 in Canada,...

 strong use of literary figures in order to compliment the story telling of their music, just as their debut full length is named after the protagonist, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin

Prince Myshkin

Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin is the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot.Dostoyevsky wanted to create a character that was "entirely positive... with an absolutely beautiful nature," and a good way to make such a character plausible in 19th century St Petersburg society was to make him...

, in the novel 'The Idiot

The Idiot (novel)

The Idiot is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoyevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of...

' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....

. The song "The Queen's Line" touches on elements of Kierkegaardian

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...

 philosophy with the opening line "This is my infinite resignation".

Track listing

1. "None The Less"
2. "Careless"
3. "The Queen's Line"
4. "St. Mary's Park"
5. "Untimely Event"