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Shock Me EP

Shock Me
Shock Me EP.jpg
EP by Red House Painters
Released February 28, 1994
Recorded 1993 at Coast Recorders and Razor's Edge, San Francisco, United States
Genre Slowcore, folk rock, sadcore
Length 20:10
Language English
Label 4AD
Producer Mark Kozelek
Red House Painters chronology
Red House Painters
(1993)
Shock Me EP
(1994)
Ocean Beach
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars

Shock Me is an EP by American slowcore band Red House Painters. It was released in the UK only in 1994 on CD and 12" vinyl by record label 4AD.

Shock Me was recorded and mixed at Coast Recorders, San Francisco in 1993. Additional recording took place at Razor's Edge, also in San Francisco.

The EP features two versions of the song "Shock Me", a Kiss cover. The EP went out of print shortly after its initial release. The tracks later surfaced on the reissued edition of Red House Painters (Bridge), released in 1999.

The "untitled instrumental" hidden track is actually an instrumental version of "A Million + 8 Things", a song from the early Red House Painters demo tapes (dated 1991-1992).

In his retrospective review, Dean Carlson of AllMusic wrote: "this mid-career EP displays a confident, introspective Red House Painters seemingly influenced by a parallel world where Nick Drake shoegazed it up with Ride or Chapterhouse. Somehow, it's quietly splendid."

All tracks written by Mark Kozelek, except where noted.


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