Iowa-based DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS featuring to SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan behind the kit, have released their new EP, Simon today (January 27th) in physical CD and digital formats. According to The End Records it has been called "a high energy, superbly off-the-wall album: the kind of music that gets under your skin and begs to be played repeatedly" by Pure Grain Audio and is "brimming with energy and a sense of perverse theatre," according to BlogCritics.org.

The tracklisting is as follows: 'Poor Poor Woman with Her Head In The Oven', 'You Say', 'Hello', 'I’m So Beautiful', 'Happy', 'Same Mistakes'. Audio samples can be found at the band's MySpace page.

The band's official bio is below.

“The beautiful thing about the Rabbits is that everybody in the band sings with their art. And I don’t just mean vocally, I mean musically,” explains band mastermind Shawn Crahan. “That’s one of the reasons we’re so unique, because everybody in the band is able to bring their palette with their colors on it and it uniquely fits together. Most people listen to our music and can’t really describe it or put it in a genre other than Dirty Little Rabbits because we’re basically five singers who are all singing our own voice, and painting our own color and at the end it’s dubbed a song and there it is hanging up.”

It all started in 2007 when Crahan, somewhat reluctantly, laid down some drum tracks for a friend. “My wife encouraged me, so against my wishes I went over and recorded this song and it turned out to be very rewarding. So the next day I was riding a high and my friend called me back up and said, ‘Hey, you should come back down tonight. I got this guy here you gotta meet, his name is Michael.’ And that was Michael Pfaff, who ended up being the keyboard player for the Rabbits.

“So with Michael on a Hammond B3 organ and myself on drums, we started jamming and I knew instantly I had met someone that could be my musical partner.” Later, Crahan was producing a band called Murder of Crows and he was intrigued by their guitarist, Ty Fyhrie. ”He had the color that I love in a guitar player,” says Crahan. I wasn’t sure whether or not he was gonna work for the Rabbits, because I didn’t want to just take him out of his band-- I don’t believe in that. But Ty wanted give it a shot and when we jammed it worked perfectly.”

Pfaff then suggested a bassist—Jeff Karnowski. “He throws shapes like no one I’ve ever seen on bass,” says Crahan, “and I knew instantly he was the right guy.

Over the next several months, Crahan and Pfaff tried out many singers with no luck. “Then I realized that the right person was under our noses the whole time,” explains Crahan. “Stella Katsoudas is like a sister to me and she shares the exact same pain as I do when it comes to performing—she’s one of the most talented and creative singers I’ve ever been able to work with.”

Katsoudas, better known as Stella Soleil, is the perfect voice for Dirty Little Rabbits. The charismatic and energetic former pop star has just the right personality to front such a unique ensemble.

“When she came in and did her songs, Michael and I just fell in love and that was it—that was the Dirty Little Rabbits,” says Crahan.

The next step for the band was finding a home. “The End understands our art, and deciding to sign with them was a no-brainer,” says Crahan. “This band is what I’ve been waiting to do my whole life. I know I’ll always be true to what I do with art and I know that everyone at The End thinks that way too. I love a lot of bands on The End. It’s a perfect family and a perfect situation.”