Curve "frozen"

I sorely miss the days when CDeps and CD singles were widely used.  I miss their exclusive tracks/b-sides and remixes.  They were affordable and came with artwork outside of the band's full length canon. They were a way to get a sizable sample of band's work outside of an isolated compilation track.  This ep by #curve sounds really dated. It's '90s production is almost overpowering but it is a compliment to the dark and sultry electro -pop.  There are shoegaze elements and a twin peaks/Angelo Badlamenti vibe to the thing that I loved when I purchased this back in 1991.  This was a period in my life I was into indestrial/electronic music.  I'd buy anything on wax trax! Records and coveted my Ministry, Skinny Puppy and KMFDM albums.  Curve fall into a more shoegazey end of that sort of music and the song "the colour hurts" was making it onto all of my mix tapes.  I bought their follow up full length "doppleganger" (one of my favorite words) and they continued in the quasi-gothic brooding vein but I seem to always return to this ep.  What's especially great about this ep is that as far as I know none of these four songs appeared on any other of their releases.  I have carted this copy around since 1991,  that is saying something.  Through my countless moves and subsequent collection purging this cd has consistently made the cut.  I've liked this disc enough through all my musical phases to never let it go to make room for new stuff.  It may be the nostalgia, this thing is a time capsule that teleports me back to my freshman year of college, it may be my underlying affinity for anything melancholic or it might be an effect of how deeply I miss the extended playing format.  In any event I don't see this cd going anywhere.