after recording a few rough demos and an unreleased album, the trio re-christened the band 'easyworld', after a lyric in their song "better ways to self destruct". the band signed to fierce panda and released their debut e.p., also titled "better ways to self destruct" even though it did not feature the song of that name, in 2001. the e.p. was preceded by the single "hundredweight".