| One Sock Missing | ||||
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| Released | 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1992, The Flower Shop & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Indie Rock, lo-fi | |||
| Length | 44:59(CD) | |||
| Label | Shangri-La Records Shangri-La 004 | |||
| Producer | The Grifters & Shangri-La Records | |||
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One Sock Missing is the second album by the American band the Grifters, released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records. [1] [2] The album was an underground hit. [3] It was reissued by Fat Possum Records in 2016. [4]
The album was in part recorded at Easley McCain Recording, in Memphis, Tennessee. [5] "I Arise" is a bonus track on the vinyl format of the album. [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
Trouser Press wrote that "Shouse and Taylor (who split vocals) often slip into a laconic saunter that’s a little too close for comfort to Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus’ slacker slump." [8] Billboard called "Corolla Hoist" "one of the great lofi singles." [9] The Staten Island Advance praised the band's "process of chopping, skewing, rearranging and mixing the standard formulas of various musical genres into a whole new ball of wax." [10]
AllMusic stated: "Certainly the most low-key (if not lo-fi) of the Grifters' early records, 1993's One Sock Missing is less noisy and aggressive than its immediate predecessor, So Happy Together." [7] Magnet noted: "Few indie-rock groups of this time pulled off such an emotionally cathartic and powerful mix of desperate darkness, dynamic heaviness, convincingly abstract drug-influenced weirdness, unbelievably infectious and gorgeous hooks, real wall-shredding sheets of noise and discordance, and low-key every-guy approachability." [11]
All tracks are written by Stank Gallimore, Tripp Lampshade, Diamond Dave Shouse and Slim Taylor.
| No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bummer" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 2:53 |
| 2. | "She Blows Blasts of Static" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 4:04 |
| 3. | "Shark" | Slim Taylor | 4:16 |
| 4. | "Teenage Jesus" | Tripp Lampshade | 3:02 |
| 5. | "Side" | Slim Taylor | 2:50 |
| 6. | "#1" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 1:16 |
| 7. | "Tupelo Moan" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 5:06 |
| 8. | "Wonder" | Slim Taylor | 1:20 |
| 9. | "Corolla Hoist" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 4:02 |
| 10. | "Encrusted" | Slim Taylor/Diamond Dave Shouse | 2:19 |
| 11. | "The Casual Years" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 3:19 |
| 12. | "Sain" | Slim Taylor | 2:28 |
| 13. | "Just Passing Out" | Diamond Dave Shouse | 3:21 |
| 14. | "I Arise" | Slim Taylor | 4:35 |
| Total length: | 44:59 | ||
credited as
Greg Easterly (Compulsive Gamblers) – Violins and Bass on Wonder
Skronkadelic Orchestra Unlimited on I Arise
sitting in
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