Deep End (Tsunami album)

Deep End
Studio album by
Tsunami
ReleasedMay 31, 1993
RecordedJuly 1992
GenreIndie rock, alternative rock
Length46:24
LabelSimple Machines[1]
ProducerTsunami
Ken Heltmueller
Jay Sorrentino
Tsunami chronology
Deep End
(1993) 		The Heart's Tremolo
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[4]

Deep End is the first full-length album by American alternative rock band Tsunami, released in 1993.[5]

Production

The album was recorded at Catbox Studios, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[6]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Toomey and Thomson’s vocal harmonies approach choir-like complexity on 'Lucky' and 'Valentine'; furthermore, the group’s thick, layered arrangements — an intoxicating blur of strummed/dirty guitars, sonorous basslines and catchy melodic hooks — mark Tsunami as pop experimentalists, not ossifying punk rockers."[7]

Track listing

All tracks by Tsunami except where noted.

  1. "In a Name" – 3:03
  2. "The Spook" – 0:22
  3. "Slugger" – 3:29
  4. "Lucky" – 3:44
  5. "Water's Edge" (Mark Edwards) – 2:59
  6. "Genius of Crack" – 4:17
  7. "460" – 3:45
  8. "Sniffy" – 0:06
  9. "Valentine" – 4:24
  10. "Skinny" – 3:26
  11. "Waxed" – 2:38
  12. "Writing Letters" – 3:26
  13. "Stupid Like a Fox" – 10:45

Personnel

  • Ken Heltmueller – engineer
  • John Pamer – drums
  • Steve Raskin – artwork
  • Jim Saah – photography
  • Jay Sorrentino – engineer
  • Charles Steck – photography
  • Kristin Thomson – guitar, vocals, artwork
  • Jenny Toomey – guitar, vox Organ
  • Andrew Webster – bass guitar, vocals

References

  1. ^ "Simple Machines Records | Tsunami". www.simplemachines.net.
  2. ^ AllMusic Review
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 277.
  4. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1171.
  5. ^ "Tsunami | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Gentry, Brandon (December 14, 2012). Capitol Contingency: Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-99. Garrett County Press. ISBN 9781891053740 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Tsunami". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 February 2021.