Limited 300 copy repress made avaialable for the bands UK tour coming up. TPOBPAH are a New York 4 piece who play genius noisy pop songs with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies, fuzz guitar and blistering drums. Within a year of releasing their blinding debut album (sure to pop up on many an end-of-year list), Brooklyn’s TPOBPAH are back with more: a full EP of all-new material. Indie popsters aren’t meant to work this hard, but, in the words of songwriter and vocalist Kip Berman, “Days off are no fun!” Recorded by the same team behind the album, with US indie legend Archie Moore (Black Tambourine, Velocity Girl) at the mixing desk, the new tracks were cut before the band’s latest tour. Up first, the beautiful Higher Than The Stars is dream-pop of the highest order, polished to the highest sheen with some additional mixing effort from Rob Kirwan (Editors, U2). It also contains some of Kip’s most despairing and sombre lyrics: “Shitfaced, fumbling in a dark place/Drinking in the last days/This street looks just like the next street/Bumblefuck on repeat,” it says. We’re not sure what a bumblefuck is, but the song, says Kip, is about “growing up in the suburbs, the endless days and nights given to boredom and chemical and sexual experiments that inevitably end tragically. It's about being young, falling in love with your best friend and the beautiful and terrible consequences of all that.” Next, 103 is raucous, fuzzy and a total earworm, and the closest thing on this EP to the sonic template of the album. It’s closely followed though by the pure 80s pop of Falling Over with its biting lyrics about “Spending time with someone who broke your heart long ago, who's trying to remove your pants in the present. Realising you have no self control, it's a plea that they exercise some”. Meanwhile, closing track Twins is “About finding someone that's just like you, only to realize you can never be together. It's not about incest.” Tracklistings : 12" 1. Higher Than The Stars 2. 103 3. Falling Over 4. Twins