Horsedrawn Wishes

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Horsedrawn Wishes
Horsedrawn Wishes cover.jpg
Studio album by
Rollerskate Skinny
Released26 February 1996 (1996-02-26)
RecordedOctober 1994 (1994-10)–March 1995 (1995-03) at STS Studios in Dublin, Ireland
Genre Rock, [1] [2] shoegaze, noise pop
Length58:25
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Rollerskate Skinny, Aidan Foley
Rollerskate Skinny chronology
Shoulder Voices
(1993)		Horsedrawn Wishes
(1996)
Singles from Horsedrawn Wishes
  1. "Speed to My Side"
    Released: 1996

Horsedrawn Wishes is the second and final studio album by the Irish indie rock band Rollerskate Skinny, released on 26 February 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded at STS Studios in Dublin, Ireland, mixed at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, United Kingdom and mastered at Metropolis Studios in London. "Speed to My Side" was released as a single in 1996. The album artwork was designed by noted Dublin designer Andy McCormack with a striking design that stood alone as a great art piece and only cemented the relationship between the music and the striking imagery.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Hot Press positive [2]
Magnet positive [3]

Since its original release, Horsedrawn Wishes has received positive critical acclaim. Allmusic rated the album four and a half out of five stars with reviewer Tim DiGravina summarising it as "an amazing 60 minutes of music that sounds like a stunning, warped genre onto itself." DiGravina drew comparisons between Horsedrawn Wishes and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (1991), said that Horsedrawn Wishes "creates elegant sounds, masters walls of guitars (and walls of other instruments as well), and arranges its songs so the hooks have maximum impact" and referred to it is "one of the most original albums in rock and one of the best albums of the 1990s." [1] Hot Press noted that the album "sounded like Ireland's answer to Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Each track was a mini-symphony blending buzzing guitars, unusual harmonies, urgent keyboards and warped melodies" and called it "one of the most innovative sixty minutes of Irish rock music ever recorded." [2] Magnet called Horsedrawn Wishes a "lost classic" and said it "contained meticulously constructed, extraordinarily druggy to-and-fro, with guitars of every shape and size poking through every available surface, its pacing a testament to a lysergic imagination." [3]

Horsedrawn Wishes was listed at number 33 on Hot Press' "100 Greatest Irish Albums" list, [2] where it had been previously listed at number 14 in 2004. [4] The album was featured as one of the "Top 50 Irish Albums" in a poll conducted by Irish radio DJ Tom Dunne in December 2001.[ citation needed ]

"Speed To My Side" was featured in the film Wild.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rollerskate Skinny

No.TitleLength
1."Swing Boat Yawning"3:49
2."Cradle Burns"4:50
3."One Thousand Couples"5:08
4."Swab the Temples"3:26
5."Speed to My Side"6:53
6."All Mornings Break"4:49
7."Man Under Glass"4:32
8."Shimmer Son Like a Star"4:02
9."Angela Starling"4:42
10."Ribbon Fat"6:13
11."Thirsty European"5:01
12."Bell Jars Away"4:59
Total length:58:25

Personnel

All personnel credits adapted from Horsedrawn Wishes's liner notes. [5]

Rollerskate Skinny
Guest musicians
Technical personnel
Design personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 DiGravina, Tim. "Horsedrawn Wishes – Rollerskate Skinny: Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". Allmusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 3 December 2005.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Horsedrawn Wishes". Hot Press . 19 December 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Lost Classics: Rollerskate Skinny, Horsedrawn Wishes". Magnet . 26 March 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Stephen Murray on Horsedrawn Wishes (14/100)". Hot Press . 18 November 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Horsedrawn Wishes (CD). Rollerskate Skinny. Warner Bros. Records. 1996. 9 45943-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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