Kicking a Couple Around | ||||
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Released | April 29, 1996 | |||
Recorded | 1994-1996 | |||
Genre | Lo-fi | |||
Length | 19:46 | |||
Label | Drag City (U.S.) Domino (France, Germany, UK) | |||
Producer | Mike Engles, Steve Albini | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Kicking a Couple Around is an EP by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog).[2][3][4] It was released on Drag City in April 1996 and re-released in Europe on Domino in 2001. "Your New Friend" was recorded during a 1995 John Peel radio session. "Back in School," "I Break Horses," and "The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" were recorded by Steve Albini.[2]
In an interview, Callahan said that "I Break Horses" was written "to help a friend try to understand how a guy she had a one-night stand with could possibly not return her phone calls the next day or ever again."[5]
Trouser Press praised “The Orange Glow of a Stranger’s Living Room,” writing that it "lets some lovely picking and piano pierce the warm gloom of [Smog's] abiding displacement."[2] The Washington Post called the EP "four delicate, downbeat songs that have a trad-country mournfulness."[6]