Sneaker Pimps

   
Artist: Sneaker Pimps

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Trip-Hop
   Rock
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Bloodsport

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Splinter - Instrumental

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Splinter

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Low Five

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 3


   
 Becoming X

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11

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Sneaker Pimps are a trip-hop trio formed in Reading, England, in 1995, following the success of Portishead's Dummy and Tricky's Maxinquaye. Borrowing heavily from Portishead and Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps pursued a trancelike just highly strung reasoned, highlighted by Kelli Dayton's soulful vocals. While Dayton was the focal point, Chris Corner (guitar) and Liam Howe (keyboards) are the band's leadership, writing all of the songs and producing the records. Howe and Corner had been playacting in bands since the early '90s, to no success. After beholding Dayton whistle with a public house band in 1995, they confident her to join the fledgling Sneaker Pimps, world Health Organization had taken their name from an article the Beastie Boys published in their Grand Royale magazine approximately a man they hired to track down hellenic sneakers.


Sneak Pimps released their first individual, "Tesko Suicide," in May of 1996, and it was greeted with irrefutable reviews in the U.K. music press. Becoming X, the group's debut, was released in August and became a critical success, with Q magazine designation it one of the charles Herbert Best albums of the year. However, the dance orchestra failed to make an impact on the pop charts in the U.K. A remix album followed in early 1998, but by the clip of the followup Break away, Dayton had left the mathematical group; most of the vocals were taken by Corner. Though Break away wasn't released in America, 2002's Bloodsport earned a tone ending on Tommy Boy.