Infinite Jest (album)
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Infinite Jest is an 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...

 by American
United States
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 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...

 band We Are The Fury
We Are the Fury
-Musical career:The group was founded as The Fury in Toledo, Ohio in 2004. Prior to forming the band, all original members were in a local Toledo, OH band called Hearsay TAO. Shortly after the demise of Hearsay TAO, the remaining members started The Fury, a name they chose inspired by one of...

. It was released in 2006 as a re-issue of their 2005 EP The Fury. Its name is taken from the David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...

 novel entitled Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America, and touches on tennis, substance addiction and recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising and popular entertainment,...

, the title of which is in turn taken from a line in William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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's Hamlet
Hamlet
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It was the band's second EP and the only one to be released under the New Armada record label
Record label
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. Following the release of this EP, the band moved to One Big Spark
One Big Spark
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 and released their debut album, Venus
Venus (album)
Venus is the first album by We Are The Fury. It was released on May 22, 2007.-Track listing:...

.

The EP is available to listen to on the band's PureVolume
PureVolume
PureVolume was the first independently run website of its type, allowing for the upload and stream of music files. It was created in 2003 by Jennifer Welch , in conjunction with the Unborn Media team; Brett Woitunski, Nate Hudson, and Mitchell Pavao; all from the University of...

page.

Track listing

The album contains five tracks:
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