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One Sock Missing is the second album by the American band the Grifters, released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records.[1][2] The album was an underground hit.[3] It was reissued by Fat Possum Records in 2016.[4]

One Sock Missing
Studio album by Grifters
Released	1993
Recorded	1992, The Flower Shop & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre	Indie Rock, lo-fi
Length	44:59 (CD)
Label	Shangri-La Records Shangri-La 004
Producer	The Grifters & Shangri-La Records
Grifters chronology
So Happy Together (1992) One Sock Missing (1993) Crappin' You Negative (1994)

Production

The album was in part recorded at Easley McCain Recording, in Memphis, Tennessee.[5] "I Arise" is a bonus track on the vinyl format of the album.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]

Trouser Press wrote that "Shouse and Taylor (who split vocals) often slip into a laconic saunter that’s a little too close for comfort to Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus’ slacker slump."[8] Billboard called "Corolla Hoist" "one of the great lofi singles."[9] The Staten Island Advance praised the band's "process of chopping, skewing, rearranging and mixing the standard formulas of various musical genres into a whole new ball of wax."[10]

AllMusic stated: "Certainly the most low-key (if not lo-fi) of the Grifters' early records, 1993's One Sock Missing is less noisy and aggressive than its immediate predecessor, So Happy Together."[7] Magnet noted: "Few indie-rock groups of this time pulled off such an emotionally cathartic and powerful mix of desperate darkness, dynamic heaviness, convincingly abstract drug-influenced weirdness, unbelievably infectious and gorgeous hooks, real wall-shredding sheets of noise and discordance, and low-key every-guy approachability."[11]

Track listing

Album credits

Grifters

credited as

• Stank Gallimore
• Tripp Lampshade
• Diamond Dave Shouse
• Slim Taylor

Additional musicians

Greg Easterly (Compulsive Gamblers) – Violins and Bass on Wonder

Skronkadelic Orchestra Unlimited on I Arise

• Jack Adcock – Gourd
• Jimmy Enck – Sax in Tune
• Robert Gordon – Jamming Untensil
• Fields Trimble (Compulsive Gamblers) – Saxophone

sitting in

• Jim Cole – Kwirrr Machine
• Sherman Willmott (Shangri-La Records) – Bike Horn
• Roy Berry (The Simple Ones)

Additional credits

• Largely recorded at the Flower Shop by Roy Berry
• Additional recording and mixing at Easley Studios by Doug Easley & Davis McCain
• Album and disc art by Roy Berry
• Cover drawing by Tripp Lamkins
• Cover design by Paul W. Ringger XXIV
• Paintings of the Grifters as a young band by Kelly
• Cover production by Towery Publishing

References

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