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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]

Kicking a Couple Around
EP by Smog
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
Smog chronology
Wild Love (1995) Kicking a Couple Around (1996) The Doctor Came at Dawn (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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]

Critical reception

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]

Track listing

1. "Your New Friend" – 6:51
2. "Back in School" – 4:40
3. "I Break Horses" – 4:44
4. "The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" – 3:26

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