The Threads EP 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...

 by Thea Gilmore

Thea Gilmore

Thea Eve Gilmore is a British female singer-songwriter. She began her career working in a recording studio, where she was discovered by her now long-time collaborator, producer and sometime co-songwriter Nigel Stonier, whom she married in October 2005.-Career:Gilmore was born in Oxford to Irish...

, her first release after she parted with former label Sanctuary

Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

. The disc was sold only on her 2007 spring tour with remaining copies sold through the official web site afterwards. All songs were written by Gilmore except "The Parting Glass

The Parting Glass

"The Parting Glass" is an Irish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. It was allegedly the most popular song sung in both Scotland and Ireland before Robert Burns wrote "Auld Lang Syne"....

", a traditional song she arranged.

The track "Icarus Wind" would reappear on her 2008 album Liejacker.

Track listing

1. "Teacher, Teacher" – 4:00
2. "Are You Ready?" – 3:42
3. "Icarus Wind" – 4:08
4. "The Parting Glass" – 3:05