Shock Me (EP)

Shock Me
EP by Red House Painters
Released	February 28, 1994 (See release history)
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)

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.

Recording

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.

Content

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).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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."^[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mark Kozelek, except where noted. 

Release history

Personnel

Additional personnel

• Carla Fabrizio
• Dan Barbee
• Larry Ragent

Technical

• Simon Larbalestier – sleeve images

References