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Shoulder Voices

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{{Infobox album

| name = Shoulder Voices

| type = Album

| artist = Rollerskate Skinny

| cover = Shoulder Voices.jpg

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| released = 1994

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| genre = Noise pop{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/shoulder-voices-mw0000112601|title=Shoulder Voices - Rollerskate Skinny | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}

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| label = Placebo
Beggars Banquet

| producer = Ger Griffin, Stevie M., Jimi Shields

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| next_title = Horsedrawn Wishes

| next_year = 1996

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |page=115}}

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Shoulder Voices is the debut album by Rollerskate Skinny, released in 1994.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rollerskate-skinny-mn0000840566/biography|title=Rollerskate Skinny | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}} 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.

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."{{cite web |title=Rollerskate Skinny |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/rollerskate-skinny/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=29 December 2020}} 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."{{Cite web|url=https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/272495/kid-silver/|title=Kid Silver|first=Christopher|last=Porter|date=June 18, 1999|website=Washington City Paper}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/on-record-favourite-sons-8vn6xwksrp7|title=On record: Favourite Sons|first=Siobhan|last=Maguire|date=2 October 2023 |via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}

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

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Category:1994 debut albums

Category:Rollerskate Skinny albums