One Sock Missing

LPA

1. Bummer
2. She Blows Blasts of Static
3. Shark
4. Teenage Jesus
5. Side
6. #1
7. Tupelo Moan

LPB

1. Wonder
2. Corolla Hoist
3. Encrusted
4. The Casual Years
5. Sain
6. Just Passing Out
7. I Arise

Fat Possum reissue 1993's 'One Sock Missing' from the Grifters. Originally coming together in 1990, the Grifters spent much of the following decade releasing four full length albums (two for Memphis-based Shangri-La Records and two for Sub Pop) and touring the US and the world with bands such as Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Pavement, Guided by Voices, Jeff Buckley, Red Red Meat and many others. 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.