On this confusingly titled EP (apparently containing no songs - that is, zero songs - from the unreleased album Bravery, Repetition, and Noise…something about a conflict with the band's label), the Brian Jonestown Massacre pays homage to its namesake. These tracks - sullen, melancholy, shrouded in a gray fog of reverb, with tambourines on the backbeat - would sound not at all out of place circa 1966. The cover artwork seems to allude to the Stones circa '66 (Flowers) as well. The chorus of the opening track, "Let Me Stand Next to Your Flower," encapsulates the band's worldview: the first line, repeated several times, is "you're like candy to me," but the next line is "candy's no good." Or is it "candy's so good?" That ambivalence, along with the candies and flowers of the lyrics, and titles like "If Love Is the Drug, Then I Want to O.D." and "New Kind of Sick," suggest the first Jesus and Mary Chain record as well (although shorn of Psychocandy's blistering feedback). There's more than mere nostalgic homage being paid, though. The closing track, "New Kind of Sick," audaciously splits itself in two across the yawning chasm of a single suspended note that resonates for (literally) several minutes. When the song's mournful waltz-time chords return, the effect is stunning, a return from the brink of death.

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