“X-French Tee Shirt” by Shudder To Think

"X-French Tee Shirt" comes from Pony Express Record, the 1994 album post-hardcore oddballs Shudder to Think made for Epic, their fifth. It was the first record with guitarist Nathan Larson and drummer Adam Wade, who came in after founders Chris Matthews and Mike Russell left, and here they line up with Craig Wedren on vocals and guitar and Stuart Hill on bass.

Ted Niceley produced it and Andy Wallace mixed it, but nobody sanded the corners off. The band had set out to sound like no one else, Fugazi and Soundgarden included, even with those influences in the air, and Larson later called the album their strangest yet: they were after a pop hit and came out with something velvety, dark and weird.

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