���Kind of an odd release, though Steve Brooks's other band Torche did a similar thing with their Healer / Across The Shields 12", which also regurgitated album material that had already been issued on a full length LP alongside a couple of exclusive tracks. This limited-edition one-sided 12" from Floor is kind of in the same vein, but only features two songs, one of 'em ("Homegoings And Transitions") already appearing on the band's recently released comeback album Oblation. It's a total double-dip, though that song is one of the catchiest on Oblation, its crushing tectonic hook fused to a strobing guitar melody, Brooks joined by Melissa Hope Friedman on vocals for the soaring harmonies on this massive slab of slow motion sludgepop majesty.

��� But it's the other song that fanatical Floor fans would mainly want to pick this 12" up for, a track called "Shadowline" that was previously only available as a bonus song on the digital version of Oblation, otherwise exclusive to this record. It sounds like something that could've come off the band's self-titled 2002 album, a massive lumbering tarpit-pop anthem laced with blasts of Brooks's speaker-rattling bomb-string and driven by another one of Floor's trademark bone-crushing hooks. Pretty goddamn great. Over on the b-side, the record is etched in weird abstract doodles that look like they might be amplifier circuit schematics, or possibly the hidden code for alien DNA. Either way, it's a weird little release that'll mostly only be of interest to the most hardcore of Floor collectors, limited to one thousand five hundred copies and packaged in a simple paper sleeve - which, by the way, is easily creased; all of the copies that we picked up from the label came with creases or folds in the cover, so getting a totally pristine copy of this looks like it's going to be next to impossible. Just bear that in mind if you are particularly picky about getting one of these in flawless condition.