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Lioness (EP)

2008 extended play by Lioness

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ16962726 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lioness is the self-titled EP and first release from Canadian indie rock band Lioness. It was released on October 21, 2008 in Canada by New Romantic Music.

Editorial summary

“Lioness (EP)” enters the record as 2008 extended play by Lioness. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lioness, extended and play can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-10-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lioness, extended and play.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lioness (EP)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lioness, extended and play provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16962726. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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.

How to read it

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Lioness (EP) primary sources, Lioness (EP) archive and Lioness research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Lioness (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.