| Infrared Riding Hood | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Tad |
| Cover: | Tad Infrared Riding Hood.jpg |
| Released: | April 11, 1995 |
| Studio: | Robert Lang |
| Genre: | Grunge, alternative metal |
| Length: | 58:32 |
| Label: | East West/Elektra |
| Producer: | Jack Endino |
| Prev Title: | Inhaler |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
Infrared Riding Hood is the fourth and final studio album by the American rock band Tad, released in 1995 on EastWest/Elektra Records.[1] [2] [3] [4] It was the follow-up to their major label debut, Inhaler.[5]
The album was produced by Jack Endino.[6] Due to the departure of founding guitarist Gary Thorstensen, frontman Tad Doyle played all of the guitar parts.[7]
The cover of the album is an "electron micrograph under a blue bleed", as stated by bassist Kurt Danielson. "In an odd way, the image seemed appropriate to the album name."
Despite enthusiasm and hopes for a long-awaited commercial breakthrough, their A&R representative was fired, and within one week, all of her bands, including Tad, were dropped from the label.[8] It was the second time in three years that Tad had been dropped by a major label.[9]
The album sold poorly, having had very little promotion behind it.[10]
Trouser Press lamented "the sheer redundancy of skulk-fests like 'Bludge' and 'Thistle Suit'."[11] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that "the band maintains a big, boisterous sound full of metal-flavored guitar riffs and snarling vocals, with enough rocking, melodic hooks to snag a place on the edges of the alternative mainstream."[12]