Catch My Shoe

Catch My Shoe
Studio album by The Ex
Released January 25, 2011
Recorded March 22–24, 2010
Studio Electrical Audio
Genre Art punk, noise rock
Length 53:36
Label Fishtank/Carrot Top
Producer Steve Albini, Bob Weston, The Ex
The Ex chronology
30 Years of The Ex
(2009)		 Catch My Shoe
(2011)		 Y'Anbessaw Tezeta
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1][1]
Spin[2][2]
Consequence of SoundB[3]
Tiny Mix Tapes[4]
NOW[5]
PopMatters[6]

Catch My Shoe is an album by Dutch anarchist band The Ex. It is the band's first record after the departure of their original vocalist G.W. Sok and features Arnold de Boer, from the band Zea, on vocals, guitar and keyboard. It is also the band's first album recorded without a bass player and has The Ex's two other guitarists trading off duties on lower pitched six-string baritone guitars. Two songs contain overdubbed brass lines recorded by Sicilian jazz trumpeteer Roy Paci.

On Catch My Shoe The Ex combine their usual art punk-style with influences from African music. One track ("Maybe I Was The Pilot") features a guitar line from a 1950s Ugandan harp player, and another ("Eoleyo") is a cover of a song that the band found on a cassette by Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed.[7]

Track listing

  1. "Maybe I Was the Pilot" 5:36
  2. "Double Order" 6:20
  3. "Cold Weather is Back" 6:32
  4. "Bicycle Illusion" 6:48
  5. "Eoleyo" 5:45
  6. "Tree Float" 5:53
  7. "Keep On Walking" 6:05
  8. "Life Whining" 3:23
  9. "24 Problems" 7:05

Single and out takes

An alternate version of "Maybe I Was the Pilot" was released as a single without Roy Paci's trumpet work, backed with the non-album track "Our Leaky Homes".[8] An alternate take of "Double Order" was released as a download on The Ex's website in 2009.[9]

Personnel

  • Arnold de Boer (vocals, guitar, samples)
  • Andy Moor (guitar, baritone guitar)
  • Terrie Hessels (guitar, baritone guitar)
  • Katherina Bornefeld (drums, vocals)
  • Roy Paci (trumpet on tracks 1 and 3)

References

  1. 1 2 Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 "SPIN Review".
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  7. ↑ Ex, The (2011). Catch My Shoe. Amsterdam: Ex Records.
  8. ↑ "Maybe I Was The Pilot / Our Leaky Homes". The Ex. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26.
  9. ↑ "Audio". The Ex. Archived from the original on 2011-05-04.
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