EP Turns 20

Look, let’s just get this out of the way: Fiery Furnaces’ third release is an EP in the way that Cut The Crap is a Clash album or Troll 2 is a sequel to 1986’s Troll — which is to say, it’s an EP in name only. At 41 minutes and three seconds, it’s longer than any studio album by the Replacements or Ramones. Even Wikipedia is skeptical of the disc’s self-designation, noting that, at such a length, it “is arguably not an EP, but rather a short LP.”

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