| No Pocky for Kitty | ||||
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| Released | October 30, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | April 21–23, 1991 | |||
| Studio | CRC (Chicago) | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 33:37 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer | Steve Albini | |||
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No Pocky for Kitty is the second studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk, released in 1991. [1] [2] Pocky is a popular Japanese snack food.
The album was recorded April 21–23, 1991, at the Chicago Recording Company by Steve Albini. [3] It was released on Matador Records in 1991, and reissued by Merge Records in 1999. [4]
Albini is not credited in the liner notes, which read "Produced with eyes closed by Laura, who sat in the right chair." The reference is to Laura Ballance, the group's bassist. [3]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Chicago Tribune |  [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [8] |
| Record Collector | [9] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [10] |
| Select | 4/5 [11] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 4/10 [12] |
Trouser Press praised the album's "indelible hooks" and Mac McCaughan’s "opaque yet curiously coercive lyric expression." [4] Paste wrote that the album "captures Superchunk at the ideal cross-section of youthful ebullience and clearheaded experience." [13]
B-sides include "Fishing", "Cool", "The Breadman", "It's So Hard to Fall in Love", "Brand New Love", and "I Believe in Fate".
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Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (1992–2024), and engineered acclaimed albums like the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me and Nirvana's In Utero.
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Firewater is the fourth full-length studio album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It was engineered by Steve Albini, who worked on most of the band's albums and singles. The album was recorded and released two years after guitarist/vocalist Joel RL Phelps left the band, leaving the remaining members to record the album as a trio. It was the band's first album released on Matador Records.
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Dream Train is an album by the American band the Accelerators, released in 1991. The album was barely marketed by Profile Records, prompting the band to ask for their release. The Accelerators subsequently broke up, with reunions taking place over the years that involved frontman Gerald Duncan backed by new musicians.
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[T]he Albini-recorded No Pocky for Kitty retains its defining unrefined edge... [with a] brash brilliance and inspiring energy...
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