Home-Made In Sunderland

That's The Breaks, Kid EP

That's The Breaks, Kid EP
Tracklist:
  1. Grab What You Can
  2. Head Battery
  3. Self-Indulgence Is The Name Of The Game
  4. Are You The One?
  5. Red Raw
  6. Private Apocalypse
  7. Alright For Some
Written between 27th December 2004 and 1st March 2005, released April 2005.
All tracks written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil O'Brien.
Cover art by Neil O'Brien, with the villain, I think, nicked from some Dead Kennedys record.

This was the first Rude Corps EP and existed basically as nothing more than a dump for a few tracks I'd written which apparently didn't fit my plans for any forthcoming album. As a result it's kind of aimless, shapeless and pointless. It's another I haven't listened to in donkey's and it feels much closer to late Unknown-period stuff: some of the beats are ok, but the melodies are bad and arrangements are super-basic. I had it in my head that there was a couple of ok-ish tracks: I think "Private Apocalypse" has the germs of some ideas I would later do better, but aye.... mostly it's just shite. Entirely skippable.

In view of how mediocre this EP is I'm a little surprised that it was one I did a re-mix of around May 2007. That's the version I'll make available. Only other thing to note I think is the sample from King Curtis' "Memphis Soul Stew" which got hideously abused on "Self-Indulgence...." - sorry about that.