Originally released by Matador as "Marshmallows" and "Fight Songs", these long out of print recordings are repackaged and renamed. Conceived in the early 90s, The For Carnation was the vanity project of Brian McMahan (Slint vocalist) and it conducted a number of earnest experiments with ultra-music, as the recordings contain here demonstrate. The results are curious and quietly compelling. Over the course of three releases, McMahan garnered contributions from David Pajo (Slint), Doug McCombs and John Herndon (Tortoise), Tim Ruth (Evergreen), and brother Michael McMahan (Dead Child), among others.