| Sky Motel | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | July 20, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | December 1998–April 1999 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, folk | |||
| Length | 45:57 | |||
| Label | 4AD [1] | |||
| Producer | Trina Shoemaker | |||
| Kristin Hersh chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− [3] |
| NME | [4] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10 [5] |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide | [6] |
| Spin | 8/10 [7] |
Sky Motel is the fourth studio album by the American musician Kristin Hersh, released in 1999. [8] [9]
Recorded at New Orleans' Kingsway Studio, the album was produced by Trina Shoemaker. [10]
Salon called the album Hersh's "most technically complex, aglow with feedback cascades, pulsing drum loops and sampled nature sounds that suggest a vast, empty night." [11] The Salt Lake Tribune thought that "'A Cleaner Light', 'Echo' and 'Caffeine' are destined to be classics in the Hersh catalog, offering wrenching lyrics that make Jewel or Alanis Morissette's so-called poetry sound like processed, angst-by-numbers in comparison." [12]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Echo" | 3:42 |
| 2. | "White Trash Moon" | 4:29 |
| 3. | "Fog" | 1:36 |
| 4. | "Costa Rica" | 3:23 |
| 5. | "A Cleaner Light" | 4:07 |
| 6. | "San Francisco" | 2:58 |
| 7. | "Cathedral Heat" | 5:06 |
| 8. | "Husk" | 4:28 |
| 9. | "Caffeine" | 4:25 |
| 10. | "Spring" | 3:07 |
| 11. | "Clay Feet" | 5:13 |
| 12. | "Faith" | 2:27 |
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