Project: Mersh is the penultimate release (final extended play, or EP release) from the American punk rock trio Minutemen before D. Boon's death later that year in an auto accident.The cover art is a painting by D. Boon depicting a meeting of three exhausted record label executives in which one of them says "I got it! We'll have them write hit songs!" Project: Mersh was a sarcastic and ironic attempt at a commercial (or "mersh") recording rather than their "econo" method.