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Cops (EP)

extended play by The Cops

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5168987 ↗
Source-derived summary

This self-titled EP is the debut release by The Cops. Released in 2004, this 5-track EP introduced the band's raw, energetic sound that would later define their full-length albums.

Critical reception

The EP received positive reviews from Australian music press, praising its "ferocious garage-punk energy and biting social commentary". The release helped establish The Cops as part of Australia's burgeoning punk revival scene in the early 2000s.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cops (EP)” as extended play by The Cops. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. The account is most persuasive where Cops, extended and play can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as extended play by The Cops. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5168987. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cops (EP)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.