Extra Life – Secular Works (2008, CD, Usa)

Tracklist:
1 Blackmail Blues 8:54
2 I Don't See It That Way 8:03
3 I'll Burn 10:14
4 The Refrain 2:53
5 This Time 10:02
6 See You At The Show 7:49
7 Bled White 2:23

Musicians:
Bass – Tony Gedrich
Drums, Percussion – Nick Podgurski
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Charlie Looker
Viola – Karen Waltuch

Keyboards, Tenor Sax, EWI – Travis Laplante

Violin –  Caley Monahon-Ward

Ocrilim, Dirty Projectors, Seductive Sprigs and Zs member, Charlie Looker, has started this project called Extra Life in 2006, playing alone and has expanded it into a full band in 2007, while leaving Zs. Looker describes this project as "Dark heavy art song" and indeed the music is song-oriented, complex, angular and disjointed. Said to be influenced by the mix of elements of chamber and medieval music influences with the math/avant-rock of his previous band, Zs and some pop sensibilities, Extra Life creates a special and eerie feeling in their first full-length Secular Works (alluding to the works composed by medieval composers which were not meant for religious purposes such as masses, hence called secular).