Firecracker is the second solo studio album by Lisa Loeb. It was released in 1997 through Geffen Records. Its cover features original artwork by illustrator Mark Miller, who transposed Loeb on to one of his original artworks, "Kitten".
Composition and production
Loeb frames Firecracker as "sort of a sequel" to her first album Tails, noting, for example, that the song "Split Second" "evolved musically out of the previous album's 'Taffy.
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The album was met with mixed reviews upon release. Rolling Stone labeled it a "disappointing" return that felt like "the sound of a songwriter stumbling toward adulthood with a sophomore's two left feet". Entertainment Weekly declared it a "well-crafted but largely soporific" that "could have benefited from some extra gunpowder". Spin, meanwhile, found it "underwhelming and middlebrow, overproduced and pointlessly moody". The album was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Commercial performance
Firecracker was certified Gold in the U.S.,
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