No Trespassing (EP)

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No Trespassing
The Roches - notrespassing.jpg
EP by
Released1986
Genre Folk
Length15:18
Label SOS Records
Rhino Records
Producer Joe Ferry, Andy Block, The Roches
The Roches chronology
Another World
(1985)
No Trespassing
(1986)
Crossing Delancey
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau B- [2]

No Trespassing is a 1986 EP by the American folk group the Roches. [3] It was released in 1986 on SOS Records, and distributed more widely by Rhino Records. [4] [5]

Contents

Production

The EP was produced by Joe Ferry, Andy Block, and the Roches. [6] The trio recorded it after splitting from Warner Bros. Records; they claimed that it was the first time that they had total control in the studio. [7]

Critical reception

The New York Times determined that "as usual with the Roches, [the EP] finds new things to say about love and its discontents—quietly but without flinching." [8] The Los Angeles Times praised the "enticing, soft-rockish title song." [9]

AllMusic wrote that "an alternately gleeful and wary romanticism empowers the whole set, as the Roches sisters' voices entwine as one, with novel harmonies adding cycles of tension and resolution." [1]

Track listing

  1. "No Trespassing"
  2. "Knifed"
  3. "That Won't Happen"
  4. "La Vie C'est La Vie"

Credits

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