Besides the title track, My Iron Lung EP also contains outtakes from then-ongoing recording sessions for The Bends, compiling songs that were issued as B-sides on two separate "My Iron Lung" CD singles in the UK and other markets. My Iron Lung was originally released in EP form with all eight songs only in Australia (and interestingly was given away there with early pressings of 1997's OK Computer to help stimulate sales of that album) but is currently in print worldwide. It is usually seen as a bridge between the simplicity of their first album, Pablo Honey, and the sonic depth and introspectiveness of their later '90s work. -wikipedia