One Sock Missing
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Production
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]
Critical reception
Template:Music ratings 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."[7] Billboard called "Corolla Hoist" "one of the great lofi singles."[8] 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."[9]
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."[10] 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]
Track listing
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Album credits
Grifters
credited as
- Stank Gallimore
- Tripp Lampshade
- Diamond Dave Shouse
- Slim Taylor
Additional musicians
Greg Easterly (Compulsive Gamblers) – Violins and Bass on Wonder
Skronkadelic Orchestra Unlimited on I Arise
- Jack Adcock – Gourd
- Jimmy Enck – Sax in Tune
- Robert Gordon – Jamming Untensil
- Fields Trimble (Compulsive Gamblers) – Saxophone
sitting in
- Jim Cole – Kwirrr Machine
- Sherman Willmott (Shangri-La Records) – Bike Horn
- Roy Berry (The Simple Ones)
Additional credits
- Largely recorded at the Flower Shop by Roy Berry
- Additional recording and mixing at Easley Studios by Doug Easley & Davis McCain
- Album and disc art by Roy Berry
- Cover drawing by Tripp Lamkins
- Cover design by Paul W. Ringger XXIV
- Paintings of the Grifters as a young band by Kelly
- Cover production by Towery Publishing
References
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