After Jimi Shields (brother of Kevin Shields, My Bloody Valentine) left Rollerskate Skinny in 1994 he moved from Dublin to Chicago and formed Lotus Crown which also featured Dubliner Paul Dillon on guitar as well as Americans Lennie Dietsch and Zack Kantor. They released an EP in 1995 and the full length album 'Chokin' on the Jokes' in 1997.