Having had a few people point out to me that the old site was utterly impenetrable to anyone who hasn't been indoctrinated with a running history of the band for the past few years, this is a brief selection of some popular/good mp3s by way of an overview to get you started, as well a place to put a couple of miscellaneous oddites and unreleased things. Loads more can be found by going to output, choosing a CD that takes your fancy and picking one of the numerous download links, but consider this a kind of bluffer's guide to this murky world. Right-click the song titles to download.

	dotwrk (6.04)
	Six minutes of quasi-epic four-chord action, with layers on top of layers on top of layers. Taken from 'You Need This To Live' (2005).

	blank faces (12.44)
	Possibly my favourite thing I've done, this has a lot of jazz-chord meandering, slow building, and freeform improvisation, before finally taking off ten minutes or so in with a load of crunchy old noise and fighting. If you don't have 13 minutes to spare, you can check out the 5-minute edit. Taken from 'Ghost Band' (2005).

	alienface (4.52)
	A kind of illbient sub-Boards Of Canada thing built fairly minimally around a set of sparse guitar loops, with a beat, this was a totally big hit, y'all! For fans of backwards guitar, subtle melodies and running ideas into the ground. Taken from 'We Were Horrified' (2006).

	broken song (6.06)
	Dusty, wandering kind of almost-blues thing, this is an off-time, hard-to-pin-down riff which doesn't let up and eventually runs away with itself in a pile of noise. Good. Taken from 'Plastic Dancers' (2006).

	casey (5.42)
	Classic tearjerking melodiousness, this has some sleepy chords and a kind of submerged, underwater hook mixed with some gargled ambient noise. Taken from 'Unrarities' (2004).

	flip the witch (2.53)
	Singing! In a strange way. 'Flip The Witch' is almost entirely made from mumbled vocal loops layered on top of each other, like a slightly less depressed Thom Yorke, with just a sprinkling of guitar at the end to add flavour. Taken from 'The Bad Human' (2006).

	comfortflows (4.33)
	This is a really old thing, one of the first things that made the Enough Rope band think we may be onto something. A concotion of somnolent melodies and shifting chord parts which is a little more complex than it sounds at first, but only a little. Taken from 'This Doesn't Solve Anything' (2001).

hey motherfucker (The Melted Emperor's Motherfuckers On Radar mix) (3.37)

An unusual one, this; after the recording of 'We Were Horrified', some of the masters for 'Hey Motherfucker' fell into the dark and enigmatic hands of Enough Rope's longtime acquantaince and remixer extraordinaire The Melted Emperor, who twisted the original's nine smoky minutes into a disconcerting three-minute zombie dancefloor thang, complete with crunching glitchcore beat and such. Previously released only on the internet, from 2006.

	instrumental (3.06)
	Quiet, slightly ambient tinkling and echoes thing, which collapses in the last 40 seconds or so into load of backwards samples fighting against each other. Pretty. Taken from 'Noises From Upstairs' (2002).

	sometime soon means never (4.02)
	A little one-off treat, a quiet-loud amateur post-rock effort that sounds a bit like (whisper it) Mogwai, built on a lazy bass riff. Previously released only on the internet, from 2005.