Shot (album)
Shot is an album by the band The Jesus Lizard, its first release on Capitol Records. Some copies of the album were accompanied by a documentary titled "Sho(r)t". Production. Impressed by his work on the album "Houdini" by Melvins, the band hired producer GGGarth to record "Shot". Of note on the album is the very different production of David Yow's vocals, which are now much clearer and higher in the mix than on previous recordings. "Shot" is the first studio album by the band that was not produced by Steve Albini. It has been widely held that  Steve Albini refused to work with the band because they had signed to a major label, although Albini himself denied this in comments made to a review of the 2009 reissue of the Touch and Go catalog that appears on the "Paste Magazine" web site. Critical reception. "Trouser Press" wrote that "songs like 'Thumbscrews' and 'Skull of a German' prove Yow hasn’t lost anything in terms of horror-storytelling, but his stab at 'singing' (much in the manner he employed in his Scratch Acid days) is ill-advised." "Kerrang!" wrote that "Shot" "features [David Wm.] Sims’ best bass playing ," praising "the spiralling flourish at 2:37 on 'Skull Of A German'." "Perfect Sound Forever" wrote that "even though the band is bathed in 'clean' conventional studio mix, they are still the Jesus Lizard and that means dark, ugly and weird." "The Rough Guide to Rock" called the album "another wedge of death-metal-grunge that showed little sign of burnout." Track listing. All songs written by The Jesus Lizard.