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Sky Motel is the fourth studio album by the American musician Kristin Hersh, released in 1999.[8][9]

Sky Motel
Studio album by Kristin Hersh
Released	July 20, 1999
Recorded	December 1998-April 1999
Genre	Indie rock, folk
Length	45:57
Label	4AD[1]
Producer	Trina Shoemaker
Kristin Hersh chronology
Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (1998) Sky Motel (1999) Sunny Border Blue (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[3]
NME	[4]
Pitchfork	8.2/10[5]
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]
Spin	8/10[7]

Production

Recorded at New Orleans' Kingsway Studio, the album was produced by Trina Shoemaker.[10]

Critical reception

Salon called the album Hersh's "most technically complex, aglow with feedback cascades, pulsing drum loops and sampled nature sounds that suggest a vast, empty night."[11] The Salt Lake Tribune thought that "'A Cleaner Light', 'Echo' and 'Caffeine' are destined to be classics in the Hersh catalog, offering wrenching lyrics that make Jewel or Alanis Morissette's so-called poetry sound like processed, angst-by-numbers in comparison."[12]

Track listing

Credits

Vocals and most of the music are performed by Kristin Hersh. Drums on tracks 1, 5 & 7 are played by Carlo Nuccio who also provides a drum loop for track 8. Drum loops for tracks 3 & 11 are provided by David Narcizo.

References

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