Wet and Rusting 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 Menomena

Menomena

Menomena are an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States; currently made up of Justin Harris, Danny Seim and more recently Joe Haege of 31Knots and Tu Fawning...

, featuring the first single from the full length Friend and Foe

Friend and Foe

Friend and Foe is the third release from the Portland, Oregon-based band Menomena. It was released January 23, 2007 by Barsuk Records. The cover art is designed by Craig Thompson, writer and illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel Blankets....

, along with two alternate versions of "Wet and Rusting" and 3 other unreleased tracks. The EP was released on FILMguerrero

FILMguerrero

FILMguerrero is an independent record label based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1998 by John Askew as a way to release Ames, the debut album by Askew's studio project Tracker. Since then, the label has gone on to release CDs, LPs and EPs by a number of different artists...

 and contains artwork by cult comic illustrator Craig Thompson

Craig Thompson

Craig Matthew Thompson is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice , Blankets , Carnet de Voyage and Habibi . Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards...

 in a letterpress printing

Letterpress printing

Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image...

format. Thompson's art on this EP was a sneak preview of his more elaborate work throughout the packaging of "Friend and Foe".

Track listing

1. "Wet and Rusting" - 3:36
2. "Walking" - 2:20
3. "Polo" - 2:50
4. "Gay A" - 3:32
5. "Wet and Rusting (E.R. Don Remix)" - 3:36
6. "Wet and Rusting (Loaf - A Deli Tea Version)" - 4:01