Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: The stand-alone EP , Area was released in November , 2005 while the band was working on their second album News and Tributes ( name inspired by the Munich air disaster in 1958 ) , which , according to NME in February , 2006 , took only five weeks to produce .
Simplified: The stand-alone EP , Area was released in November , 2005 while the band was working on their second album News and Tributes . According to NME in February , 2006 , it took only five weeks to make .