Kicking a Couple Around

Kicking a Couple Around
EP by Smog
Released	April 29, 1996
Recorded	1994-1996
Genre	Lo-fi
Length	19:46
Label	Drag City (U.S.); Domino (France, Germany, UK)
Producer	Mike Engles, Steve Albini
Smog chronology

Kicking a Couple Around is an EP by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog).[2][3][4] It was released on Drag City in April 1996 and re-released in Europe on Domino in 2001. "Your New Friend" was recorded during a 1995 John Peel radio session. "Back in School," "I Break Horses," and "The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" were recorded by Steve Albini.[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

In an interview, Callahan said that "I Break Horses" was written "to help a friend try to understand how a guy she had a one-night stand with could possibly not return her phone calls the next day or ever again."[5]

Critical reception

Trouser Press praised “The Orange Glow of a Stranger’s Living Room,” writing that it "lets some lovely picking and piano pierce the warm gloom of [Smog's] abiding displacement."[2] The Washington Post called the EP "four delicate, downbeat songs that have a trad-country mournfulness."[6]

Track listing

"Your New Friend" – 6:51
"Back in School" – 4:40
"I Break Horses" – 4:44
"The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" – 3:26

References

Phares, Heather. "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
"Smog". Trouser Press. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
"The quiet Americans". The Independent. April 19, 1996.
Buckley, Peter (July 21, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
"Interviews: Bill Callahan". Pitchfork. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
Jenkins, Mark (May 17, 1996). "PALACE'S BEAUTY" – via www.washingtonpost.com.

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[1] Phares, Heather. "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-08-13.

[TP-2] "Smog". Trouser Press. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

[3] "The quiet Americans". The Independent. April 19, 1996.

[4] Buckley, Peter (July 21, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.

[5] "Interviews: Bill Callahan". Pitchfork. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2012.

[6] Jenkins, Mark (May 17, 1996). "PALACE'S BEAUTY" – via www.washingtonpost.com.