Loud Flowers' 3-song Litho EP was released in April 2026 in tandem with the 3-song Earwig EP. All six songs were initially meant to go on a full-length album that would be recorded at Seattle's Earwig Studio with renowned engineer and studio owner Don Farwell at the board. But by the time the band was ready to start recording, Don was in the middle of moving his operation to Tacoma and building a new Earwig Studio from scratch to his own very exacting specifications. Fortunately for us, during this transition Don was also doing a lot of sessions at Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard's legendary Studio Litho and suggested we start recording there. (We did. It was great.) Halfway through the project, Don had his new Earwig Studio up and running, so we moved operations to Tacoma. By the time recording was completed in early 2026 we had three songs from the Litho sessions and three from the Earwig sessions. The Litho recordings were more lush and layered; the Earwig recordings were comparatively stripped down and spacious. The contrast wasn't planned; things just shook out that way. If the Litho songs were an exercise in adding musical elements (including recording with several guest players), the Earwig songs were more about creative subtraction, with everything being played by the three core members of the band. We recorded a number of overdubs (piano, various guitar parts, more vocal harmonies, etc.), but the Earwig songs just seemed to demand less not more. In a game of musical Jenga we ended up wiping a number of otherwise perfectly good overdubs in order to preserve the raw, live feel of the basic tracks. This less-is-more approach just seemed to suit this particular batch of songs better. While the two EPs represent a single, yearlong song cycle ('24-'25, more or less), they're kind of like siblings: closely related but with their own distinct personalities.