A year on from , released the stopgap EP . Where the full-length debut showed sparks of character and invention beneath sludge, is a smartly crafted horror show, filled with vulgarity, ugliness, goth freaks, and sideshow scares. wisely chose to heighten his cartoonish personality with the EP. Most of the record is devoted to spoken words and samples, all designed to push to the outrage buttons of middle America. Between those sonic collages arrives one new song, retitled remixes of songs -- -- and three covers ( ), all given a trademark spooky makeover. Musically, it may not amount to much -- it's - , as good as the and trilogy that distinguished the debut -- but as a sonic sculpture, as an objet d'art, it's effective and wickedly fascinating. It's exactly what needed to do to establish as America's bogeyman for the late '90s. [And it also helped enhance his myth for his fans. originally was released promotionally, complete with unauthorized samples and other unapproved sound bites. It was pulled, censored, and re-edited ( were removed from the EP) before it was officially released in October 1995, and the original promo copies became valuable collectibles and the most bootlegged item in the catalog.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine