The Perfect Little Door Explained

The Perfect Little Door (CD EP)
Type:EP
Artist:Portastatic
Cover:ThePerfectLittleDoor.jpeg
Released:2001
Genre:Indie rock
Label:Merge

The Perfect Little Door is CD EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Merge Records label in 2001.[1]

According to the Merge Records website, the EP is "a collaboration between Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Portastatic, etc) and Ken Vandermark (reed player extraordinaire) plus Tim Mulvenna (multi-faceted percussion)."[2]

The five-song EP consists of new versions of three previously recorded Portastatic songs; a new version of Ken Vandermark's song "Late Night Wait Around"; and one entirely new song, "Hey Salty" (which would later appear in a re-worked version of its own on the Portstatic LP Summer of the Shark (2003).[3]

The EP was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois, while the band was in town for Noise Pop 2001.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Had"
  2. "Hey Salty"
  3. "Late Night Wait Around"
  4. "Broken Arm"
  5. "When You Crashed"

Notes and References

  1. http://mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=41 "MergeRecords.com"
  2. http://mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=41 "MergeRecords.com"
  3. http://mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=41 "MergeRecords.com"
  4. http://mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=41 "MergeRecords.com"