''Schizophonic!'' is an album by the American
lounge
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band
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 '' Addams Family'' tune, composed by Vic Mizzy.][ The recording of the album was delayed by more than a year in order for Combustible Edison to work on the soundtrack to '' Four Rooms''.
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Critical reception
''CMJ New Music Monthly
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'' deemed the album "a musical pastiche, but just as suave and easy to listen to as its precursors."Trouser Press
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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 ''Los Angeles Times
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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 '']Waikato Times
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'' wrote that "Combustible Edison are more bizarre than banal."[ The '']Orlando Sentinel
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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.AllMusic
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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."[
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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
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1996 albums
Sub Pop albums