Deep End (Tsunami album) explained

Deep End
Type:	Album
Artist:	Tsunami
Cover:	Tsunami- Deep_End.jpg
Released:	May 31, 1993
Recorded:	July 1992
Genre:	Indie rock, alternative rock
Length:	46:24
Label:	Simple Machines^[1]
Producer:	Tsunami Ken Heltmueller Jay Sorrentino
Next Title:	The Heart's Tremolo
Next Year:	1994

Deep End is the first full-length album by American alternative rock band Tsunami, released in 1993.^[2]

Production

The album was recorded at Catbox Studios, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.^[3]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Toomey and Thomson’s vocal harmonies approach choir-like complexity on 'Lucky' and 'Valentine'; furthermore, the group’s thick, layered arrangements — an intoxicating blur of strummed/dirty guitars, sonorous basslines and catchy melodic hooks — mark Tsunami as pop experimentalists, not ossifying punk rockers."^[4]

Track listing

All tracks by Tsunami except where noted.

1. "In a Name" – 3:03
2. "The Spook" – 0:22
3. "Slugger" – 3:29
4. "Lucky" – 3:44
5. "Water's Edge" (Mark Edwards) – 2:59
6. "Genius of Crack" – 4:17
7. "460" – 3:45
8. "Sniffy" – 0:06
9. "Valentine" – 4:24
10. "Skinny" – 3:26
11. "Waxed" – 2:38
12. "Writing Letters" – 3:26
13. "Stupid Like a Fox" – 10:45

Personnel

• Ken Heltmueller – engineer
• John Pamer – drums
• Steve Raskin – artwork
• Jim Saah – photography
• Jay Sorrentino – engineer
• Charles Steck – photography
• Kristin Thomson – guitar, vocals, artwork
• Jenny Toomey – guitar, vox Organ
• Andrew Webster – bass guitar, vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Simple Machines Records | Tsunami. www.simplemachines.net.
2. Web site: Tsunami | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Book: Gentry, Brandon. Capitol Contingency: Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-99. December 14, 2012. Garrett County Press. 9781891053740. Google Books.
4. Web site: Tsunami . Trouser Press . 10 February 2021.