Holding Patterns was the first release from +/-

+/- (band)

+/-, or Plus/Minus, is an American indietronic band formed in 2001. The band makes use of both electronic and traditional instruments, and has sought to use electronics to recreate traditional indie rock song forms and instrumental structures...

 after it had expanded to a touring band. This was also the first major release from the group to feature songwriting and lead vocals by Patrick Ramos

Patrick Ramos

Patrick Ramos is a Filipino-American musician who is notable as drummer for key 1990s indie group Versus, and singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist for 2000s indietronic group +/-....

. Pitchfork Media's review of the EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 coined the term "lap-rock" to describe its marriage of electronic production and indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

. It was released in a modified version in Japan, and the US version of the EP was packaged with the band's subsequent album You Are Here

You Are Here (+/- album)

You are Here is the second album released by +/-. It was the first full-length release to feature the line-up of James Baluyut, Chris Deaner and Patrick Ramos. It featured a remixed and edited version of Trapped Under ice Floes from the Holding Patterns EP. With its European release in mid-2008 it...

 in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

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US version

1. "I've Been Lost" – 4:00
2. "Trapped Under Ice Floes" – 5:26
3. "Far into the Fields" – 2:47
4. "You've Just Got It All" – 4:25
5. "Making the Horse Drink" – 3:18

Japanese version

1. "I've Been Lost"
2. "Trapped Under Ice Floes"
3. "Summerlong" (cover of the song by Emm Gryner
   Emm Gryner
   Emm Gryner is a Canadian singer-songwriter and occasional actress.-Biography:Gryner's childhood was spent in Forest, Lambton County, Ontario. Her father was of half Irish heritage and her mother was Filipina....
   
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4. "You've Just Got It All"
5. "Making the Horse Drink"
6. "If I Am Charming"

External links

• Page for the EP at & Records (in Japanese)
• +/- official discography