This Is Just a Modern Rock Song is Belle & Sebastian's fourth EP, released in 1998 on Jeepster Records.

It is the only Belle & Sebastian release never to be issued in North America, although all four tracks from the EP were later collected on the Push Barman to Open Old Wounds compilation.

"Slow Graffiti" was written for the soundtrack of the film The Acid House based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name.

Reviewing the title track, PopMatters said the song, "gave a rare look inside the band or at least some kind of semi-fictionalized version of it.

Regardless of the verisimilitude of the sketches, what was important was that these 'four boys in our corduroys' became characters as vivid and endearing as the ones they wrote about.