Kicking a Couple Around
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Kicking a Couple Around is an EP by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog).[1][2][3] It was released on Drag City in April 1996 and re-released in Europe on Domino in 2001. "Your New Friend" was recorded during a 1995 John Peel radio session. "Back in School," "I Break Horses," and "The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" were recorded by Steve Albini.[1]
In an interview, Callahan said that "I Break Horses" was written "to help a friend try to understand how a guy she had a one-night stand with could possibly not return her phone calls the next day or ever again."[4]
Critical reception
Trouser Press praised “The Orange Glow of a Stranger’s Living Room,” writing that it "lets some lovely picking and piano pierce the warm gloom of [Smog's] abiding displacement."[1] The Washington Post called the EP "four delicate, downbeat songs that have a trad-country mournfulness."[5]
Track listing
- "Your New Friend" – 6:51
- "Back in School" – 4:40
- "I Break Horses" – 4:44
- "The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" – 3:26
References
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