Mobile Estates

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Mobile Estates
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 9, 1999
Recorded1998
Genre
Length42:32
Label Warner Bros. [1]
Producer Dave Cooley, Matt Sims, Eric Valentine
Citizen King chronology
Brown Bag LP
(1995)
Mobile Estates
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Cincinnati Post B+ [3]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Times 8/10 [5]

Mobile Estates is the second and final album by Citizen King, released in 1999. [6] [7] It was the band's only album for a major label. [8]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Dave Cooley, Matt Sims, and Eric Valentine. [9]

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "even at Citizen King's most engagingly relaxed ('Jalopy Style', 'Long Walk Home'), the band just sounds like the Red Hot Beastie Spin Doctors." [10] Rolling Stone thought that "if a finer vintage—say, Beck circa 1998—is unavailable, Citizen King are just dope and dopey enough to feed your faux funk habit." [11] The San Antonio Express-News called the album "a tuneful, low-fi and quirky major-label debut." [12]

Track listing

All songs written by Matt Sims and Dave Cooley, except where noted.

  1. "Under the Influence" (Sims) - 4:22
  2. "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)" - 3:38
  3. "Safety Pin" (Sims) - 3:45
  4. "Jalopy Style" - 3:11
  5. "Basement Show" - 3:48
  6. "Smokescreen" - 3:24
  7. "The Milky Way" - 0:46
  8. "Long Walk Home" - 2:58
  9. "Skeleton Key" - 4:37
  10. "Closed for the Weekend" (Sims) - 2:56
  11. "Salt Bag Spill" - 2:15
  12. "Billhilly" - 3:27
  13. "Checkout Line" - 3:36

Personnel

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