Tropic of Scorpio is the debut studio album by American band Girls Against Boys, released in 1992 by record label Adult Swim.
Contents
Reception
Trouser Press wrote that the album "rocks savagely on 'Wow Wow Wow', staggers drunkenly on 'Wasting Away' and pushes the distortion envelope on 'Plush'." The Washington Post noted that "'Matching Wits with Flaming Frank' and 'Wasting Away' possess some needed vehemence, but such jazzy tracks as 'Everywhere I Go I Seem to Spend $20' ... are just so much vapor."
AllMusic called it "a slightly off-and-on affair, but when it works it fulfills the promise of the earliest recordings and then a little bit more."
Personnel
Adapted from the Tropic of Scorpio liner notes.
Girls Against Boys
Alexis Fleisig – drums
Eli Janney – sampler, production, engineering
Scott McCloud – lead vocals, guitar
Johnny Temple – bass guitar
Production and additional personnel
Nathan Larson – trumpet, backing vocals
Yuri Martyr – photography
David Rathbone – charango
Chris Thomson – backing vocals
Zeke Weiner – tabla
Luke Wood – guitar