Third Eye is the third studio album by Redd Kross. It was released by Atlantic Records on September 14, 1990.[5] It includes "Annie's Gone", which peaked at number 16 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.[6] The naked masked woman on the cover of the album is Sofia Coppola.[7][8] The band's guitarist Robert Hecker provided vocals on "1976", doing a Paul Stanley impersonation, which led people to believe Stanley did the singing.[9]
Critical reception
Alex Henderson of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, saying: "While some punk enthusiasts missed the old Kross, this decent though not outstanding album proves that the band was still worthwhile at the dawn of the '90s."[1] Greg Sandow of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a grade of B, saying: "Their uncanny '60s echoes have to be taken with a mountain or two of irony, which — take your choice — gives the album depth, or else weighs the group's cute little tunes down with more significance than they can easily bear."[2] Jeremy Clarke in Q Magazine described the album as a "potent neo-pop with bright melodies".[4]
