Shimmer (Surgery album)

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Shimmer
Surgery - Shimmer.jpg
Studio album by
Surgery
ReleasedApril 5, 1994
RecordedSound City, Van Nuys, California
Entourage Studios, North Hollywood, California
Genre
Length45:15
Label Atlantic
Producer GGGarth, Surgery
Surgery chronology
Trim, 9th Ward High Roller
(1993)		Shimmer
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [2]

Shimmer is the second and final album by Surgery. [3] [4] It was released in 1994 through Atlantic Records. [5] Due to the death of frontman Sean McDonnell nine months after the album's release, the band broke up.

Contents

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote that Surgery "operates in the low end of rock's frequency spectrum, bringing the bass to the center of their sound, rarely hitting the high strings on the guitar, and churning out music that values density over melody." [6] The Washington Post deemed the album "unexceptional electric blues-rock." [7] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the band's "riffing and tandem vocals are a modern-rock reduction of Bachman-Turner Overdrive." [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Surgery

No.TitleLength
1."Bootywhack"2:58
2."Off the A-List"4:51
3."Shimmer"2:17
4."Vibe Out"4:00
5."Mr. Scientist"2:53
6."Low Cut Blues"6:37
7."D-Nice"4:12
8."Gulf Coast Score"4:55
9."Nilla Waif"3:24
10."Didn't I Know You Once"3:30
11."No. 1 Pistola"5:38

Personnel

Surgery
Production and additional personnel

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  2. ↑ Sinclair, Tom (May 13, 1994). "Shimmer". Entertainment Weekly . No. 222. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Surgery | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. ↑ Blush, Steven (October 4, 2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN   9781250083623 – via Google Books.
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