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Length
  
58:25

Release date
  
26 February 1996

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Released
  
26 February 1996 (1996-02-26)

Recorded
  
October 1994 (1994-10)–March 1995 (1995-03) at STS Studios in Dublin, Ireland

Producer
  
Rollerskate Skinny, Aidan Foley

Genres
  
Pop music, Rock music, Noise pop, Rock and roll

Rollerskate skinny horsedrawn wishes full album


Horsedrawn Wishes is the second and final studio album by the Irish indie rock band Rollerskate Skinny, released on 26 February 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded at STS Studios in Dublin, Ireland, mixed at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, United Kingdom and mastered at Metropolis Studios in London. "Speed to My Side" was released as a single in 1996.

Contents

Rollerskate skinny swingboat yawning


Reception

Since its original release, Horsedrawn Wishes has received positive critical acclaim. Allmusic rated the album four and a half out of five stars with reviewer Tim DiGravina summarising it as "an amazing 60 minutes of music that sounds like a stunning, warped genre onto itself." DiGravina drew comparisons between Horsedrawn Wishes and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (1991), said that Horsedrawn Wishes "creates elegant sounds, masters walls of guitars (and walls of other instruments as well), and arranges its songs so the hooks have maximum impact" and referred to it is "one of the most original albums in rock and one of the best albums of the 1990s." Hot Press noted that the album "sounded like Ireland's answer to Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Each track was a mini-symphony blending buzzing guitars, unusual harmonies, urgent keyboards and warped melodies" and called it "one of the most innovative sixty minutes of Irish rock music ever recorded." Magnet called Horsedrawn Wishes a "lost classic" and said it "contained meticulously constructed, extraordinarily druggy to-and-fro, with guitars of every shape and size poking through every available surface, its pacing a testament to a lysergic imagination."

Horsedrawn Wishes was listed at number 33 on Hot Press' "100 Greatest Irish Albums" list, where it had been previously listed at number 14 in 2004. The album was featured as one of the "Top 50 Irish Albums" in a poll conducted by Irish radio DJ Tom Dunne in December 2001.

"Speed To My Side" will be featured in the film Wild. The whole back catalog of Rollerskate Skinny including Horse Drawn Wishes and previously unreleased material along with Kid Silver, Favourite Sons and August Wells will be released next year on Captcha Records.

Track listing

All tracks written by Rollerskate Skinny.

Personnel

All personnel credits adapted from Horsedrawn Wishes's liner notes.

Rollerskate Skinny
  • Ken Griffin – vocals, guitar, keyboards, orchestration
  • Ger Griffin – guitar, keyboards, drum programming, orchestration
  • Stephen Murray – bass, guitar, keyboards, orchestration
  • Guest musicians
  • Clive Carroll – drums (2–10)
  • Conor Murray – drums (1, 11, 12)
  • Paul Cantwell – drums (9)
  • Technical personnel
  • Rollerskate Skinny – production, mixing (1–4, 6, 8–10)
  • Aidan Foley – production, engineering, mixing (5, 7, 11, 12)
  • Anjali Dutt – mixing (1–4, 6, 8–10)
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Design personnel
  • Power House Commercial Designs Dublin – design, photography
  • Eamonn McLoughlin – front cover photography
  • Andrew Flynn – back cover photography
  • Songs

    1Swingboat Yawning3:49
    2Cradle Burns4:51
    3One Thousand Couples5:09

    References

    Horsedrawn Wishes Wikipedia


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