Shoulder Voices

Shoulder Voices is the debut album by Rollerskate Skinny, released in 1994.[3] The album was named the Album of the Month in CMJ. It led to an appearance on the 1994 Lollapalooza tour and a recording contract with Sire Records.

Shoulder Voices
Studio album by
Rollerskate Skinny
Released1994
GenreNoise pop[1]
LabelPlacebo
Beggars Banquet[2]
ProducerGer Griffin, Stevie M., Jimi Shields
Rollerskate Skinny chronology
Shoulder Voices
(1994)		 Horsedrawn Wishes
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a fascinating and delightful debut that jumps easily from intimate indie tunefulness (the vocals sound like Pavement) to free-fire pop noise, with plenty of wild and wonderful textures along the continuum."[4] Washington City Paper wrote: "Mixing the sonic textures of My Bloody Valentine with the rich melodies of Echo & the Bunnymen and angular, runaway rhythms, Voices' layered brilliance was maniacally complex, immediately catchy, and refreshingly innovative."[5] The Times wrote that "for a generation of Irish music fans, the Dublin art-rock band Rollerskate Skinny's Shoulder Voices (1993) was as important as Nirvana's In Utero and Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream.[6]

Track listing
  1. "Miss Leader"
  2. "Violence to Violence"
  3. "Lúnasa"
  4. "Bring on Stigmata"
  5. "Bella"
  6. "Ages"
  7. "Bow Hitch-Hiker"
  8. "Some Give Birth"
  9. "Shallow Thunder"
  10. "Slave"
  11. "So Far Down Up to Heaven"

References
  1. "Shoulder Voices - Rollerskate Skinny | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 115.
  3. "Rollerskate Skinny | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. "Rollerskate Skinny". Trouser Press. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  5. Porter, Christopher (18 June 1999). "Kid Silver". Washington City Paper.
  6. Maguire, Siobhan (2 October 2023). "On record: Favourite Sons" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
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