Shock Me (EP)

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Shock Me
EP by Red House Painters
Released	February 28, 1994
Recorded	1993
Studio	Coast Recorders and Razor's Edge, San Francisco, California
Genre	Slowcore, folk rock
Length	20:10
Language	English
Label	4AD[1]
Producer	Mark Kozelek
Red House Painters chronology
Red House Painters (1993) Shock Me (1994) Ocean Beach (1995)

Shock Me is an EP by American slowcore band Red House Painters.^[2][3] It was released in the UK only in 1994 on CD and 12" vinyl by record label 4AD.

Shock Me was recorded and mixed at Coast Recorders, San Francisco in 1993. Additional recording took place at Razor's Edge, also in San Francisco.^{[citation needed]}

The EP contains two versions of the song "Shock Me," a Kiss cover.^[2] The EP went out of print shortly after its initial release. The tracks later surfaced on the reissued edition of Red House Painters (Bridge), released in 1999.

The "untitled instrumental" hidden track is actually an instrumental version of "A Million + 8 Things", a song from the early Red House Painters demo tapes originally recorded sometime between 1989 and 1992. A version of the song containing its original lyrics has never seen an official release.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[5]

In his retrospective review, Dean Carlson of AllMusic wrote: "this mid-career EP displays a confident, introspective Red House Painters seemingly influenced by a parallel world where Nick Drake shoegazed it up with Ride or Chapterhouse. Somehow, it's quietly splendid."^[4]

Additional personnel

• Carla Fabrizio
• Dan Barbee
• Larry Ragent

Technical

• Simon Larbalestier – sleeve images