''The Perfect Little Door'' is CD EP by the band

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. It was released on the

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label in 2001. According to the Merge Records website, the EP is "a collaboration between

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(Superchunk, Portastatic, etc) and

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(reed player extraordinaire) plus Tim Mulvenna (multi-faceted percussion)." 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). The EP was recorded at

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in Chicago, Illinois, while the band was in town for Noise Pop 2001."MergeRecords.com"
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Track listing

# "Had" # "Hey Salty" # "Late Night Wait Around" # "Broken Arm" # "When You Crashed"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perfect Little Door 2001 EPs Merge Records EPs Portastatic albums