''Schizophonic!'' is an album by the American

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Combustible Edison Combustible Edison was an American neo- lounge music group founded in the early 1990s in Providence, Rhode Island. They were one of several lounge acts that led a brief resurgence of interest in the genre during the mid-1990s. Unlike other bands ...

, released in 1996.

Production

The album was produced by the band and Brian Capouch. All five band members contributed to the songwriting. "Morticia" is a cover of the ''

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. The recording of the album was delayed by more than a year in order for Combustible Edison to work on the soundtrack to ''

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Critical reception

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'' deemed the album "a musical pastiche, but just as suave and easy to listen to as its precursors." ''

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'' thought that "having painted itself into a stylistic corner, Combustible Edison seems content to simply stand around and watch that paint dry." The ''

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'' opined that "perhaps the optimal (and only) way to appreciate it is with a luridly exotic drink in hand and a steady conversational buzz in the foreground." The ''

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'' wrote that "Combustible Edison are more bizarre than banal." The ''

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'' declared that ''Schizophonic!'' "has a haunting quality reminiscent of Fellini film scores by the late Nino Rota"; the paper also picked it as one of the 10 best albums of 1996.

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wrote that "there's some melancholia and weariness to the torch vocal-influenced numbers in particular, which betrays an ironic, modernist bent absent from first-generation cocktail/lounge." '' (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide'' called the album "entirely uninspired, and unnecessary in a world where Martin Denny records can be found at garage sales."

Track listing

# Alright, Already # Bluebeard # The Checkered Flag # One Eyed Monkey # Solid State # Les Yeux Sans Visage # '52' # Short Double Latté # Mudhead # Morticia # Objet D'Amour # The Corner Table # Lonelyville

References

External links

Combustible Edison at Sub Pop
{{Authority control 1996 albums Sub Pop albums