| One Sock Missing | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Grifters |
| Cover: | Grifters One Sock Missing.JPG |
| Released: | 1993 |
| Recorded: | 1992, The Flower Shop & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Indie Rock, lo-fi |
| Length: | 44:59 (CD) |
| Label: | Shangri-La Records Shangri-La 004 |
| Producer: | The Grifters & Shangri-La Records |
| Prev Title: | So Happy Together |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Crappin' You Negative |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
One Sock Missing is the second album by the American band the Grifters, released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records.[1] [2] The album was an underground hit.[3] It was reissued by Fat Possum Records in 2016.[4]
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]
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." 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."[10]
credited as
Greg Easterly (Compulsive Gamblers) – Violins and Bass on Wonder
Skronkadelic Orchestra Unlimited on I Arise
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