This 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...

 features tracks from The Loud Family

The Loud Family (band)

The Loud Family is an American band based in San Francisco that began in 1991, went on hiatus in 2000 and returned in 2006. The band is named after the real-life Loud family, stars of the 1973 TV show An American Family, the first reality TV show...

's debut album, Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things

Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things (album)

Having dissolved his critically acclaimed 80's band Game Theory, Scott Miller re-emerged in 1993 with his new band, The Loud Family. Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things was named after a line from the song A Horse With No Name by America....

, as well as some live in the studio tracks recorded at WNUR-FM in Evanston, Illinois.

"Back of a Car" is a cover of a song by Big Star, while "Erica's Word" is a cover of a song by Loud Family leader Scott Miller

Scott Miller (Californian musician)

Scott Miller was formerly a member of the 1980s power pop group Game Theory and lead singer of the group The Loud Family. Both bands were based in the San Francisco Bay Area...

's earlier band, Game Theory

Game Theory (band)

Game Theory was an American rock band from 1981 to 1989. The group's lead singer, Scott Miller, went on to front the band The Loud Family. Game Theory is best known for its double LP Lolita Nation. The band favored hyper-literary references, a la Jean-Luc Godard, including the evident...

. Michael Quercio

Michael Quercio

Michael Quercio was the founder, bassist and lead singer of The Three O'Clock. He is also notable for being the apparent source of the genre name Paisley Underground, originally a joke. The Three O'Clock were among the most successful artists of the neo-psychedelic movement of the 1980s...

, leader of The Three O'Clock

The Three O'Clock

The Three O'Clock were a United States alternative rock group associated with the Los Angeles 1980s Paisley Underground scene. Lead singer and bassist Michael Quercio is credited with coining the term "Paisley Underground" to describe a subset of the 1980s L.A...

 and sometime member of Game Theory, plays bass on "The Come On".

The EP's title alludes to William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

's poem The Second Coming

The Second Coming (poem)

"The Second Coming" is a poem composed by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 and first printed in The Dial and afterwards included in his 1921 collection of verses titled Michael Robartes and the Dancer. The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and second coming as allegory to...

, which ends with the line "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" The Loud Family's usage is a nod to both Scott Miller's literary interests and to the hometown of the group's forebears The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

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Track listing

1. "Take Me Down" – 3:09
2. "The Come On" – 3:23
3. "Back of a Car" – 2:27
4. "Slit My Wrists (Live at WNUR-FM)" – 2:52
5. "Aerodeleria (Live at WNUR-FM)" – 3:05
6. "Erica's Word (Live in Studio)" – 4:04

Personnel

• Jozef Becker - drums and percussion
• Scott Miller
  Scott Miller (Californian musician)
  Scott Miller was formerly a member of the 1980s power pop group Game Theory and lead singer of the group The Loud Family. Both bands were based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
  
   - vocals and rhythm guitar
• R. Dunbar Poor - bass
• Zachary Smith - lead guitar
• Paul Wieneke - keyboards and backing vocals