One Sock Missing, by Grifters

One Sock Missing

by Grifters

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popetones This one really holds up. The songwriting, the fidelity, serving no genre, real shit.

Uncool S Get drunk 😵 ducker clucker Favorite track: Tupelo Moan.

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1.	Bummer 02:53	buy track
2.	She Blows Blasts of Static 04:04	buy track
3.	Shark 04:16	buy track
4.	Teenage Jesus 03:02	buy track
5.	Side 02:50	buy track
6.	#1 01:16	buy track
7.	Tupelo Moan 05:06	buy track
8.	Wonder 01:20	buy track
9.	Corolla Hoist 04:02	buy track
10.	Encrusted 02:19	buy track
11.	The Casual Years 03:19	buy track
12.	Sain 02:28	buy track
13.	Just Passing Out 03:21	buy track
14.	I Arise 04:35	buy track

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Certainly the most low-key (if not lo-fi) of the Grifters' early records, 1993's One Sock Missing is less noisy and aggressive than its immediate predecessor, So Happy Together, but that doesn't mean it's mellow. Not even close, in fact. The Memphis foursome play with the swaggering-and-staggering intensity of the circa-1984 Replacements channeling the circa-1968 Stones, and for once, the lo-fi pretense (abrupt fade-outs, jerky tape splices, audible coughs, and background noise, more distortion than a Sonic Youth record) actually enhances the funky charms of the songs instead of serving as a distraction. Dig the way "Encrusted" is gradually swallowed up by the background noise until the song finally bursts through again for a triumphant climax. The swirling, almost psychedelic "#1"; the strings-enhanced "Wonder"; and the choogling opener "Bummer" are among the band's best-ever songs, and the filler that mars most of the Grifters' albums (even gems like Ain't My Lookout) is largely absent. The more in-your-face Crappin' You Negative got better press at the time, but in the long run, One Sock Missing is by far the best of the Grifters' pre-Sub Pop albums.- Stewart Mason of All Music

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released June 9, 2016

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