Mobile Safari is the third album by the Scottish band The Pastels, released in 1995.[4][5]

Mobile Safari
Studio album by The Pastels
Released	February 1995
Recorded	1994, Cava Sound Workshops and Stuffhouse, Glasgow
Genre	Indie pop, alternative rock, indie rock
Length	37:59
Label	Domino[1]
Producer	Paul Chisholm, The Pastels
The Pastels chronology
Sittin' Pretty (1989) Mobile Safari (1995) Illumination (1997)
Singles from Mobile Safari
"Yoga" Released: October 1994 "Worlds of Possibility" Released: 1995

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

Production

The album was recorded at Glasgow's Stuffhouse Studios and CAVA Sound Workshops.[2] Dean Wareham contributed guitar to a few tracks.[6]

"Flightpaths to Each Other" was also the name of an art exhibit organized by the band in 1994, in Glasgow.[7]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that the band "stretched out to an American audience with their calm and reflective style of blissful indie pop."[2] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "an enjoyable collection of ragamuffin odes to life in and outside of an underachieving indie band."[3] Trouser Press wrote that the album "builds upon the Pastels’ oft-copied shambling pop sound, but rounds off some of the songs’ rough edges with fleshed-out arrangements and sensitive, clear production."[6] Martin C. Strong called it "a wryly self-deprecating look at an indie band’s lot."[8] Spin wrote that "this spacious record goes way beyond the shambly pop aesthetic with which the Pastels are associated."[7]

Track listing

All songs written by Stephen McRobbie, except where noted.

1. "Exploration Team" (David Keegan, McRobbie) – 3:04
2. "Mandarin" (Katrina Mitchell) – 3:26
3. "Yoga" (McRobbie, Annabel Wright) – 4:17
4. "Mobile Deli" (Wright) – 1:32
5. "Exotic Arcade" – 2:58
6. "Classic Line-Up" – 3:17
7. "Flightpaths to Each Other" (Keegan, McRobbie) – 2:12
8. "Basement Scam" – 4:50
9. "Strategic Gear" – 1:52
10. "Token Collecting" (Mitchell) – 3:13
11. "Coolport" – 3:32
12. "Worlds of Possibility" (Wright, Mitchell, McRobbie) – 3:46

Personnel

• Stephen McRobbie (or Stephen Pastel) – guitar, vocals
• Katrina Mitchell – drums, vocals, percussion, keyboards, guitar
• Annabel Wright (or Aggi) – bass, vocals, keyboards, guitar, artwork
• David Keegan – guitar
• Dean Wareham – guitar
• Norman Blake – guitar, vocals, percussion
• Gerard Love – guitar, vocals
• Sarah Ward – flute
• Judi Mitchell – cor anglais
• Dawn Kelly – French horn
• Maureen Roberts – saxophone
• Luke Williams – trombone
• Darren Ramsay – trumpet
• Laura Mitchell – viola

References

External links

• Mobile Safari at Domino Records

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