Between 2000 and 2001, Panchiko recorded three more songs for an EP called Kicking Cars, which would go unreleased. In 2001, the band members were in sixth form and college. Ferreday said that he was balancing college, studying classical guitar, and working different part-time jobs. "I'd meet Owain and Andy in the evenings and discover most of a song had been written," he explained, "and I just had to add in a bassline." Their second EP has been described as "art rock".
