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The trip-hop sounds of Sneaker Pimps found a large audience as the genre exploded in the mid-1990s, and SPLINTER was a fine addition to their body of work.
Sneaker Pimps followed the debut success of Becoming X with the different, yet strangely familiar, Splinter. Kelli Dayton, whose haunting vocals made songs like "Spin Spin Sugar" and "6 Underground" so evocative, is no longer with the group. While this takes the listener a few moments to re-adjust -- Dayton's voice was, after all, what made Sneaker Pimps so accessible -- this album is still worth the effort. Splinter is a superb disc, full of trancey, edgy psychedelia, interspersed with moments of blistering rock. The new vocalist, Chris Corner, is not nearly as good a singer as Dayton, although his breathy -- and at times whiney -- vocals suit these songs well. Although the comparisons with Portishead, Massive Attack, and Garbage are inevitable, the Sneaker Pimps have created an intricate album of trip-hop that is every bit as original as any of their contemporaries. While Splinter may not have the standout singles that Becoming X had, it's pleasantly low-key and occasionally brilliant. ~ Jonathan Lewis
Japanese Version Featuring 2 Bonus Tracks: Diving, & Unattached.
This version of the album includes two additional tracks.
CD contains 2 bonus tracks. Sneaker Pimps Splinter Songs | 1. | Half Life |
| 2. | Low Five |
| 3. | Lightning Field  |
| 4. | Curl |
| 5. | Destroying Angel |
| 6. | Empathy |
| 7. | Superbug |
| 8. | Flowers & Silence |
| 9. | Cute Sushi Lunches |
| 10. | Ten to Twenty |
| 11. | Splinter |
| 12. | Wife by Two Thousand |
| 13. | Diving (Bonus) |
| 14. | Unattach (Bonus) |
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Purchase Splinter CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Sneaker Pimps Becoming X CD (1996)
Splinter
 $12.19   
Sneaker Pimps have clearly mastered the art of having your cake and eating it too. On BECOMING X, the British band combines techno beats and samples with Big Rock Guitar and cutesy-girl vocals a la Letters To Cleo, covering all bases for an eclectic sound that keeps things from getting too staid or predictable. While the overall mood is one of darkness ...
| | Plaid Not For Threes CD (1998)
Splinter
$13.39 
As 2/3 of the magnificent Black Dog Productions, Ed Handley and Andy Turner heralded an age of lushly melodic electronic songcraft. The acrimonious fission of BDP produced Plaid and revived the dashed hopes of the duo's earlier brilliance. But, with only one (legendarily rare) album, a fistful of aliases and quiet production assignments, and a few singles in recent years, Plaid had the appearance of an elaborate tease.
If the gorgeous NOT FOR THREES is any indication, Plaid just didn't want to rush perfection. The album seems to be directed ...
| | Deftones Back To School CD (2003) (Import) Mini Maggit; Australia
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| | Sneaker Pimps - Videos DVD (2004)
Splinter
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| | Mogwai My Father My King CD (2001) (Import) Bonus Tracks; Japan
Splinter
$27.85
This three track Japanese release by Scottish experimental indie rockers Mogwai features "My Father My King" and live versions of "You Don't Know Jesus" and "Helicon 1."
The sticker on the disc is intriguing enough, calling it a "companion to their recent Rock Action album" and "two parts serenity and one part death metal." My Father My King is a single track of the same name that lasts ...
| | Breeders Title TK CD (2002)
Splinter
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It may have taken nearly a decade for The Breeders to deliver a follow-up to 1993's critically and commercially acclaimed LAST SPLASH, but TITLE TK does not disappoint, as Dayton's Deal sisters continue to serve up their brand of oddly patched-together pop. With lo-fi engineering deity Steve Albini manning the board, The Breeders return with a stripped-down sound that manifests itself on off-kilter cuts like "Sinister Foxx" and the shambling, gloriously dissonant "Too Alive."
Although the pace throughout is decidedly low-key, the decidedly tart harmonies the Deals sprinkle throughout TITLE TK make for a singular listening experience, particularly on the druggy haze of the psychedelic nugget "The ...
| | (Not Just) A Pretty Face & A Pompadour CD (1998)
Splinter
$14.95
Somewehere between blues-rock, rockabilly, and teen-idol angst, Not Just Another Pretty Face includes classic '50s and early-'60s tracks like Roland Stone's "Somebody Nobody Wants," Jimmy Clanton's "I Wanna Go Home," Dick Holler's "Baby I Love You," Johnny Fairchild's "Someone for Me," and the Emeralds' "Only Time Will Tell." ~ Earl Simmons
White pretty boys became the direction of Jackson, Mississippi's Ace Records in the wake of the success of Jimmy Clanton. But unlike the Frankies and Bobbies and Fabians of the era, many of the label's teenage rockers could actually sing with some real rhythmic feeling. On many of the tracks, the Ace house band at Cosimo's Studio were used, bringing in the cream of the New Orleans players to blow hard and heavy behind artists like Johnny Angel on "Teenage Wedding," one of the many highlights included here. On others, label owner Johnny Vincent merely had micro-talents like Scotty McKay put his vocals over the original band tracks of "Little Liza Jane," "Sea Cruise" and "Roberta." There's far more rockin' aboard than one would normally suspect on this type ...
| | Henry Paul Grey Ghost CD (1979)
Splinter
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Henry Paul was a rhythm guitarist and vocalist for the Outlaws. He left the group in 1977 after its third album. He formed the Henry Paul Band in 1978 and signed to Atlantic later that year. Grey Ghost is the band's debut, and it is drenched in Southern rock influences as well as those of '70s West Coast bands such as the Eagles. The opening cut, "So Long," combines folk, country-rock, and the over the top guitar punch of bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers, while "Crossfire" sounds like the Joe Walsh-era Eagles jamming with the Pure Prairie League and "Foolin'" has the Byrds' signature all over it. But to say that Paul and his band merely copied what was out there wouldn't be fair. Grey Ghost is a fine album; the songcraft is tight and crisp, the lead and harmony vocals are crystalline, and the production is unobtrusive. But those twin guitar leads that sound like they come from the Allmans' "Ramblin' Man" are a bit derivative sounding. The title track is the best thing on the record. Written in 1977, it is an uncredited but undisguised tribute to the late Ronnie VanZant of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who had perished two years earlier in a plane crash: "And the autumn wind whispers through the tall and lonely pines/And the hour of fate is drawing close at hand/A free bird falling from the sky/Brings an end to another Southern man...." Despite the close harmonies and softer edges of the first half of the disc, the second half entrenches itself more in the raw Southern boogie and hard honky tonk rock that defines the genre, from "I Don't Need You No More" to "Lonely Dreamer," the crunchy "You Really Know (What I Mean)," and the closer, which reverts back to the more airy sound of side one with added percussion by ace Joe Lala, who guests. The only loser is the idiotic "One Night Stands." A hard rocker, even at the end of the 1970s they should have known better than this. Still, it's a small mark against one of the more obscure but worthy albums from the era. Wounded Bird Records has issued the band's four Atlantic recordings on ...
| | Stand & Fight Stand & Fight CD (2003)
Splinter
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Look at the album cover and title (upraised hands emblazoned with permanent-marker Xs, guys with buzz cuts gathered around the singer's outstretched microphone, expressions of fierce intensity on their faces) and you think you know what to expect: straight-edge hardcore on the old-school tip. But the music is actually a little more complicated than that (not much more, but a little more): despite all the straight-edge iconography on the cover, Stand & Fight's music feels a bit more like metal than hardcore, without metal's bloviating excesses (average song length is about one minute and 20 seconds). There are plenty of wide-open headlong dashes, but also lots of palm-muted power chords and ...
| | Dinosaur Jr You're Living All Over Me CD (1987) Remastered; Enhanced CD
Splinter
$12.25
The enhanced portion of this CD contains videos for "Little Fury Things" and "Just Like Heaven."
One of the great albums of the late-1980s US indie scene, 1987's YOU'RE LIVING ALL OVER ME is a pre-grunge guitar rock ...
| | Belle & Sebastian Storytelling CD (2005) (Import)
Splinter
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| | Bigtyme Ugly Playa Vol. 1-Greatest Hits CD (2007)
Splinter
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| | General Jones Album I CD (2008)
Splinter
$15.19
General Jones first appeared on the San Francisco music scene in February of 2007. They have vigorous energy, timeless style that is impossible not to enjoy. Drummer Gary Jones has been playing with Shark since 2005 - back when this music was played under the group name "Eighteen Wheeler" in the bosom of the magnificent Rocky Mountains, Boulder, CO. His impeccable meter and humble style are the heartbeat of this group. Zach "Z-Money" Sharpe has been playing the Bass guitar since the beginning of time; he carries the infectious air of funk/blues/soul style bass that will have you unable to resist the dance floor. Scott ...
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