| No Trespassing | ||||
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| Released | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 15:18 | |||
| Label | SOS Records Rhino Records | |||
| Producer | Joe Ferry, Andy Block, The Roches | |||
| The Roches chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| 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]
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]
The New York Times determeind 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]
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