Tiger Trap (album)

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Tiger Trap
Studio album by
Tiger Trap
Released25 May 1993[1]
Recorded1993
Genre
LabelK Records
ProducerCalvin Johnson
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Billboard(favorable)[3]
Piero Scaruffi6/10[4]
Robert Christgau(neither)[5]

Tiger Trap is the only album released by the band Tiger Trap. It was released in 1993 on K Records and was produced by Calvin Johnson. With about 10,000 copies sold, it was K Records' best-selling album until they released Beck's One Foot in the Grave the following year.[6]

Composition[edit]

Along with twee pop, Tiger Trap is musically aligned with "energetic" indie pop[2] and "romantic" punk-pop.[4]

Critical reaction[edit]

In 2014, Andrew Earles called the album "quintessential", and wrote that on it, Tiger Trap "packed each song with at least one pop hook."[7]

Legacy and impact[edit]

Retrospectively, Tiger Trap has been held up as one of twee pop's most essential releases. In an 2005 essay called "Twee as Fuck", Pitchfork's Nitsuh Abebe "highly recommended" the album and highlighted two of its tracks, "Puzzle Pieces" and "My Broken Heart".[8] In 2014, The A.V. Club's Paula Mejia dubbed it a "Possible gateway" into the genre.[9] The following year, the site's Jason Heller wrote that the album "embodies twee," but added that "it’s also a forceful, potent, consummately melodic complement to the more strident sounds of riot grrrl that were raging around them at the time."[10]

On a 2013 Complex list, Trap placed #40 out of indie rock's 50 best albums of the 1990s. Writer Philip Cosores saw its impact carry into numerous later groups like Allo Darlin', Veronica Falls, Colleen Green and Swearin'.[11] Writing for The Stranger in 2016, Sean Nelson credited it with "set[ting] the aesthetic standard for NW indie pop forever after."[12]

Accolades[edit]

Critical rankings for Tiger Trap
Publication Type List Year Rank Ref.
Complex
Decade-end
The Best Indie Rock Albums of the '90s
2013
40
[11]
Pitchfork
The 25 Best Indie Pop Albums of the '90s
2022
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[13]
"--" indicates an unordered list.

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Puzzle Pieces"
  2. "You're Sleeping"
  3. "Eight Wheels"
  4. "Supercrush"
  5. "Tore a Hole"
  6. "Words and Smiles"
  7. "For Sure"
  8. "You and Me"
  9. "Supreme Nothing"
  10. "Chester"
  11. "My Broken Heart"
  12. "Prettiest Boy"

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Tiger Trap [KLP017], by Tiger Trap". Tiger Trap. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ^ a b Tiger Trap at AllMusic
  3. ^ Verna, Paul; Morris, Chris; Morris, Edward, eds. (1993-07-10). "Album Reviews". Billboard. p. 46.
  4. ^ a b Scaruffi, Piero. "The History of Rock Music. Tiger Trap: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings". scaruffi.com. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  5. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Tiger Trap Reviews". Robertchristgau.com.
  6. ^ Hochman, Steve (26 June 1994). "Pop Eye". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 333.
  8. ^ Abebe, Nitsuh (October 23, 2005). "Twee as Fuck". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  9. ^ Mejia, Paula (May 1, 2014). "A wistful walk through the precious world of twee pop". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  10. ^ Heller, Jason (5 November 2015). "Where to start with the indie charm of Beat Happening and K Records". The A.V. Club.
  11. ^ a b Cosores, Patrick (September 18, 2013). "The Best Indie Rock Albums of the '90s". Complex. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  12. ^ Nelson, Sean; Segal, Dave (September 8, 2016). "50 Great NW Indie Rock Albums That Weren't On Pitchfork's List of the 50 Best NW Indie Rock Albums". The Stranger. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  13. ^ Pitchfork staff (October 27, 2022). "The 25 Best Indie Pop Albums of the '90s". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
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