design [cover] The Silverman
liner notes Edward Ka-Spel
painting Emma Hyland-Arkley
Issued as a home made CDr with cardboard sleeve and an insert.
Edition of 199.

The title appears as Blessed Mementoes on the sleeve.
Released simultaneously with Kleine Krieg.

The history of The Dots must appear like an impossible
maze to the uninitiated. Some songs appear on several
cassette releases, often re-recorded, sometimes reinvented
for the myriad of compilations the bands turned up on.
Occasionally a 20-minute LPD's epic would include
known songs morphing into atmospherics as with the rare
The End Of The World As We Know It. The familiar
becomes a little unfamiliar, the memory plays tricks. I
blush to confess it was deliberate. Even so this compilation
is doing it's best to play fairer, even if a song like, say
Down From The Country can be found elsewhere. For
the purist, there's a new pristine edition of Kleine Krieg
on cd-r, while for those who understandably don't need
Defeated yet again, there is also this collection which largely
avoids the repetition. Cover design by [...] based
on a painting by [...]. [...] (from the text on the insert)