Scenery and Fish

{{Infobox album

| name = Scenery and Fish

| type = Album

| artist = I Mother Earth

| cover = Scenery And Fish.jpeg

| alt =

| released = April 23, 1996 (CAN)
July 9, 1996 (US)

| recorded = Fall 1995

| venue =

| studio = Studio Morin Heights, Quebec; Huff's Place, Arnyard Studios & Number Nine Sound, Toronto.

| genre = {{hlist|Alternative rock}}

| length = 63:08

| label = Capitol

| producer = Paul Northfield, Jagori Tanna

| prev_title = Dig

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Blue Green Orange

| next_year = 1999

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Scenery and Fish

| type = studio

| single1 = One More Astronaut

| single1date = 1996

| single2 = Another Sunday

| single2date = 1996

| single3 = Used to be Alright

| single3date = 1997

| single4 = Raspberry

| single4date = 1997

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r237938|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Scenery and Fish is the second album by the Canadian rock band I Mother Earth, released by Capitol and EMI in 1996. It is the band's most commercially successful album, going double platinum in Canada and selling 320,000 units in Canada by April 1999.{{cite magazine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&dq=I+Mother+Earth+Billboard | title=Edwin Moves Away From Mother Earth With Solo Bow On Epic| magazine=Billboard| date=April 3, 1999| accessdate=May 26, 2014}}

The album is the band's first studio record to feature bassist Bruce Gordon. Writing for the album began around January 1995, pre-production and recording took place in the fall, and mixing was done from November-December 1995. The album was somewhat of a continuance of the band's percussive, psychedelic sound, albeit this time with more of a post-grunge twist tinged with elements of both progressive rock and pop.

Critical reception

Scenery and Fish won the 1996 CASBY Award for "Favourite New Release".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RPM-IDX/IDX/90s/RPM-1996-12-16-OCR-Page-0013.pdf|title=I Mother Earth, Limblifter scoop up at CASBYs|magazine=RPM|accessdate=January 28, 2024}} The album was nominated for "Rock Album of the Year" at the 1997 Juno Awards.{{cite web|url=https://junoawards.ca/awards/past-winners-nominees/?search_year_val1=1970&search_year_val2=2023&search_category_val=285&search_wins_val=no&tag_search_val=I+Mother+Earth&submit=submit|title=AWARDS: PAST NOMINEES + WINNERS|accessdate=January 28, 2024}}

Personnel

Edwin – vocals
Jagori Tanna – guitars, backing vocals
Bruce Gordon – bass
Christian Tanna – drums

= Additional musicians =

Alex Lifeson – additional guitar on "Like A Girl"
Luis Conte – percussion
Daniel Mansilla – percussion
Kenny Pearson – Hammond B3 organ

Track listing

(All songs written by "I Mother Earth", later revealed to be Jagori and Christian Tanna){{cite web|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/I/I_Mother_Earth/1999/07/11/746147.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709154612/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/I/I_Mother_Earth/1999/07/11/746147.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 9, 2012 |title=CANOE – JAM! Music – Artists – I Mother Earth : I Mother's rebirth |publisher=Jam.canoe.ca |date=July 11, 1999 |accessdate=July 26, 2013}}

{{Track listing

|title1 =Hello Dave!

|length1 = 0:47

|title2 =Like a Girl

|length2 = 4:40

|title3 =One More Astronaut

|length3 = 5:24

|title4 =Another Sunday

|length4 = 4:05

|title5 =Three Days Old

|length5 = 5:47

|title6 =Used to Be Alright