Search - Grifters :: One Sock Missing

Raw, refreshing dirty sound

Dave | Minneapolis, MN United States | 03/14/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This album has not yet been reviewed, and I believe it deserves one. This indie Memphis group mixes the Germs with Unwound's depressing sound with Polvo's lo-fi sound and experimentation. Very cool sound. If you don't like it at first, wait a while, it'll grow on you. My favorites from this album are "Bummer", "Teenage Jesus", "Wonder", "The Casual Years"."

Another Mind-Blowing Grifters Gem

Evan C. Chase | SF, CA USA | 02/29/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Here's the first truly killer grifters album

or cd. Bought this thing like five different

times. So damn good. From opening rocker

Bummer to She blows Blastic of Static to

spacey Sain/The Casual Years these guys are

allovertheroad in the best possible way.

Trippy songs, trippy lyrics featuring bass

by a guy named Trip Lamkins. Ridiculously

great band, live and on tape, sounds lo-fi

but One sock was the beginning of a bigger,

louder sound for the Grifters. Culminating

in the amazing Crappn' You Negative which

followed the next year i believe on the

mighty Mephis label Shangri-La, a label

GBv-man Tobin Sprout later wrote a song

about. Four & a half-stars for rare beauty

& serious four-on-the-floor four piece

Stones-y rockn'roll."