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I greatly enjoyed Plumerai's debut album "Without Number". Since then, the band has been working on smaller things left and right, including a web EP and a 7" with The Brother Kite, and now they have released an EP on their own label darushka-4. The EP contains two new songs, "Electrical Mess" and "Die... Die Slowly". The first showscases the band's upbeat sound, whereas the second is somewhat darker and more sober. This is followed by a remix of "Shapes And Trees", a song from the web EP that was released earlier this year. I have to say that I'm not very fond of it as Elizabeth's voice and the music's timbre clash. The last two songs are bootleg recordings, made during a short tour in Greece in 2008, of again "Shapes And Trees" and "Blues And Greens", which is a song from their debut album. The recordings are of quite poor quality, but they do make clear that the bandmembers sound as good live as they do in the studio. Altogether I would say that this EP is more of a collector's item. Even if the new songs would not appear on a new album, I can't say you would be missing their best output so far if you decided to skip this one. - originally written for the Dutch weblog IkEcht, English translation by the author.