| Schizophonic! | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Lounge | |||
| Label | Sub Pop | |||
| Producer | Combustible Edison, Brian Capouch | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [3] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [4] |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| The Tampa Tribune | [6] |
| Waikato Times | [7] |
Schizophonic! is an album by the American lounge band Combustible Edison, released in 1996. [8] [9]
The album was produced by the band and Brian Capouch. [4] All five band members contributed to the songwriting. [10] "Morticia" is a cover of the Addams Family tune, composed by Vic Mizzy. [11] 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 . [12]
CMJ New Music Monthly deemed the album "a musical pastiche, but just as suave and easy to listen to as its precursors." [11] Trouser Press thought that "having painted itself into a stylistic corner, Combustible Edison seems content to simply stand around and watch that paint dry." [13] The Los Angeles Times 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." [3] The Waikato Times wrote that "Combustible Edison are more bizarre than banal." [7] The Orlando Sentinel 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. [14] [15]
AllMusic 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." [1] (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." [5]
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