On the Mouth

On the Mouth is the third studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk. The album was recorded September 14–20, 1992, at West Beach Studios, engineered by Donnell Cameron, and produced by John Reis and Superchunk. It was released by Matador Records in 1993.

On the Mouth
Studio album by Superchunk
Released	February 10, 1993
Recorded	September 14–20, 1992
Studio	West Beach Studios
Genre	Indie rock
Length	45:20
Label	Matador
Producer	John Reis, Superchunk
Superchunk chronology
Tossing Seeds (1991) On the Mouth (1993) Foolish (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[2]
Record Collector	[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

On the Mouth marked the debut of drummer Jon Wurster, who replaced Chuck "Chunk" Garrison.

The band also has a song called "On the Mouth," but it is not on this album. It first appeared as b-side for the single version of "Mower".

According to frontman Mac McCaughan, On the Mouth saw Superchunk pulling from different influences without straying too far from their original sound: "In our minds we were incorporating and absorbing things from bands we were touring with like Rocket from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, and Polvo but, when you listen to it, it just sounds like a Superchunk record."^[6]

Legacy

American alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World covered "Precision Auto" on their 2010 album Invented. Fucked Up and Tom Scharpling, of Scharpling and Wurster fame, covered the song at the Matador at 21 festival in Las Vegas. Post-punk band Les Savy Fav covered it on Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!.

Track listing

1. "Precision Auto" – 2:46
2. "From the Curve" – 3:18
3. "For Tension" – 2:59
4. "Mower" – 3:45
5. "Package Thief" – 2:28
6. "Swallow That" – 6:14
7. "I Guess I Remembered It Wrong" – 3:33
8. "New Low" – 3:20
9. "Untied" – 4:12
10. "The Question is How Fast" – 4:06
11. "Trash Heap" – 3:25
12. "Flawless" – 2:33
13. "The Only Piece That You Get" – 2:41

References

1. Ankeny, Jason. "On the Mouth – Superchunk". AllMusic. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
2. Browne, David (February 19, 1993). "Watery, Domestic / On the Mouth / Eleven: Eleven". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
3. "Superchunk: On the Mouth". Record Collector: 93. [I]nvigorating... There are grungey undercurrents in 'Mower' and 'Swallow That'...
4. Diehl, Matt (April 15, 1993). "Superchunk: On The Mouth". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 25, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
5. Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Superchunk". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 795–96. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
6. Deller, Alex (November 14, 2023). ""We didn't emulate Mudhoney's behaviour because we might not be alive if we had!" Superchunk look back on the decade that helped birth and destroy US alt rock". Louder Sound. Archived from the original on December 8, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2024.