The River - EP

## From *The River - EP*

1. "The River"
Exclusively released on November 12th, 2023
2. "Ghost"
Exclusively released on January 15th, 2024

***The River - EP***, referred as "***The River EP***", is the unreleased second extended play (EP) by James Lares. The EP was initially planned for a late 2023 release (or could be November 11th, 2023), but eventually scrapped. Overall, not much is known about this album.

## Background

On September 25th, 2023, Lares teased a 46-second snippet of "The River" on his Instagram story.

On September 30th, 2023, Lares took to Twitter, revealing that he has been producing some of his most exceptional music since the production of *INSIDE MY HOUSE*. A day after then, on October 1st, 2023, he made an announcement, stating his intention to release music within the year (2023), which could include singles leading up to the album or potentially the album itself. As the aftermath, Lares ended up releasing "The River", and "VENENO" after the day of announcement; "VENENO" somehow don't have much relation to this EP, but just exclusively released as a fun song.

On October 20th, 2023, Lares posted a video on his Instagram feed teasing "The River" again, highlighting each song on his first extended play, *INSIDE MY HOUSE*, on the lyrics.

On October 26th, 2023, Lares posted multiple snippets of the three songs for the supposed upcoming EP via Instagram. These include another snippet of "Fucked Again", new introduced songs: "Before" and "Dry from the Water". The upcoming discography was later replaced with this album, and these tracks will still most likely make it to the album as Lares clarified on an Instagram Q&A on December 23rd, 2023.

On November 12th, 2023, Lares posted the full song of "The River" exclusively on YouTube and SoundCloud. In each description, he said:

## Theme

The EP could picture the aftermath of the previous extended play, *INSIDE MY HOUSE*, thus connecting to the next era, *1st studio album*.

## Tracklist

There is no official chronological track list yet, but here is the list of songs that were potentially intended for this EP instead:

* "Before"
* "Dry from the Water"
* "Fucked Again"
* "The River"
* "Unimportant"

## Trivia

*See also: "The River"*

* The existence of this EP was revealed on Lares' YouTube playlists.
	+ It was created on November 11th, 2023 indicating the planned release of the EP.
		- It was also a day before "The River" was exclusively released.
	+ This is also most likely be the same EP Lares has been teasing since September.
* Lares has been frequently teasing "Unimportant" since September so it is possible it was also intended to release on this EP.
* Lares most likely had to scrap this EP due to financial problems or he had to focus on the 1st studio album.
* This EP most likely include "Before", "Dry from the Water", and "Fucked Again", since Lares posted a snippet of these 3 songs on Instagram together, and took them down months later due to unknown reasons.

## References

1. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/jameslaress/ghost
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTl78uGNLw1eubKAFRRskHBlndgAfHD1W
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nefno6KqPHY
7. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/jameslaress/the-river
12. ↑ Read the caption: https://soundcloud.com/jameslaress/the-river

### Notes

1. ↑     It is most likely because Lares decided to scrap the EP, and focus on the album instead which he clarified on his Instagram story.