| Straight Freak Ticket | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Love Battery |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | February 28, 1995[1] |
| Genre: | Grunge, psychedelic rock, alternative rock |
| Length: | 49:01 |
| Label: | Atlas |
| Producer: | Bruce Calder, Love Battery |
| Prev Title: | Far Gone |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | Confusion Au Go Go |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Straight Freak Ticket is an album by the American alternative rock band Love Battery.[2] [3] The band's first album for a major label, it was released in 1995 on Atlas Records.[4] The first single was "Fuzz Factory".[5]
The band supported the album with a North American tour that included shows with Bettie Serveert.[6] Straight Freak Ticket was a commercial disappointment.[7]
Primarily produced by Bruce Calder, the album was recorded in Seattle in the fall of 1994.[8] [9] Kevin Whitworth played slide guitar on some of the album's tracks.
The Albuquerque Journal deemed Straight Freak Ticket "a good, solid, basic rock 'n' roll album."[10] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it "a solid, well-produced album of guitar-based rock with catchy hooks and a strong dose of psychedelia."[11] The Arizona Daily Star considered Straight Freak Ticket to be "an excellent album, boasting the spirit of out-of-control rock music focused with the precision of a big-budget recording."[12]
The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded: "If Nirvana was The Beatles of the Seattle Invasion, then Love Battery is somewhere between Gerry & The Pacemakers and Petula Clark."[13] USA Today labeled the album "a psychedelic tour de force and dramatic leap forward," writing that "the antigrunge guitar riff-o-rama of Ron Nine and Kevin Whitworth propels the Seattle quartet's most adventurous and listenable tunes to date."