''Hydrophonic'' is the fourth and final studio album from

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. By this stage, lead singer Sean Dickson was the only original member of the band, working with a variety of session musicians including

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and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. It was released in 1994 to weak sales and generally apathetic or poor reviews. Jason Damas's AllMusic review has since claimed that this was an injustice and that "if you liked the more rocking parts of ''

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'', and want to hear more, this is an extremely worthwhile place to go."

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was contrastingly dismissive, called the album a "soggy hodgepodge of lunkheaded rock, would-be hip-hop, blues, soulful backing vocals and chants" and advised readers to "flush it". Following the disappointing sales of the album, Dickson ended the Soup Dragons and went on to form

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Track listing

All songs written by Sean Dickson.Amazon reviews and track listing
/ref> # "One Way Street" (4:00) # "Don't Get Down (Get Down)" (5:05) # "Do You Care?" (3:20) # "May the Force Be with You" (4:31) # "Contact High" (3:43) # "All Messed Up" (3:39) # "The Time Is Now" (4:52) # "Freeway" (4:19) # "Rest in Peace" (5:42) # "JF Junkie" (4:34) # "Automatic Speed Queen" (3:23) # "Out of Here" (3:37) # "Motherfunker" (6:52) # "Black and Blues" (4:47) # "Hypersonic" (0:54)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hydrophonic (Soup Dragons Album) The Soup Dragons albums 1994 albums