| Push | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Gruntruck |
| Cover: | Gruntruck Push.jpg |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Recorded: | 1992 |
| Studio: | Red Farm Films |
| Genre: | Grunge |
| Label: | Roadrunner |
| Producer: | Jack Endino, Gary King |
| Prev Title: | Inside Yours |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Shot, Illusion, New God |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
Push is the second album by the American grunge band Gruntruck.[1] [2] It was released in 1992 by Roadrunner Records.[3] The album contains "Tribe", "Crazy Love", and "Above Me", which were released as singles. The band supported the album by touring with Alice in Chains and Screaming Trees.[4]
Recorded at Seattle's Red Farm Films studio, the album was produced by Jack Endino and Gary King.[5] It cost 12,000 to record.[5]
The Washington Post noted that "the hooks to songs such as 'Machine Action' and 'Crazy Love' recall Nirvana, a perhaps unwelcome but nonetheless accurate comparison."[6] Billboard wrote that Gruntruck "may not have the musical moxie to push them above [Seattle's] wall of grunge, but they're capable of dishing out some decent songs with coherent melodies, effective arrangements and a good measure of passion."[7]
USA Today praised the production of Endino, writing that "most of the ditties encourage a unique brand of booty shakin', not headbanging," while noting that "guitarist Tommy Niemeyer ... still rips out E string-based metal from opening cut 'Tribe' to the final tune, 'Push'."[8] The Seattle Times deemed the album "grunge-meets-psychedelia."[9]
All tracks composed by Ben McMillan excepted where noted.