Electric Juices
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| Electric Juices | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Studio | Fort Apache Studios | |||
| Genre | Alternative pop | |||
| Label | TAG/Atlantic[1] | |||
| Producer | Tim O’Heir, Paul Q. Kolderie | |||
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Electric Juices is the second album by the American band Fuzzy, released in 1996.[2][3]
The first single from the album was "Someday".[4] Fuzzy promoted Electric Juices by touring with Velocity Girl and the Posies.[5]
Recorded at Fort Apache Studios, the album was produced by Paul Q. Kolderie and Tim O’Heir.[6][4] It contains a cover of the Beach Boys' "Girl Don't Tell Me", which was released as a single.[7]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [9] |
| Vancouver Sun | [10] |
Trouser Press wrote: "Sweetly engaging and as freshly cut as a suburban lawn on Sunday afternoon, Electric Juices is Fuzzy perfection."[6] The Washington Post called the songs "buoyantly tuneful in the manner of '60s Top-40 fare," writing that "Fuzzy's melodic gifts dwarf those of most of its peers."[11] The Orlando Sentinel concluded that "the distorted guitars and heavy, post-punk rhythms make for an interesting contrast with the New Wave-y 'Drag', the power-poppy 'Sleeper' and the bouncy 'Girl Don't Tell Me'."[12]
The Intelligencer Journal deemed the album "guitar pop of a high order," writing that "what makes Fuzzy special is the harmony singing of [Chris] Toppin and [Hilken] Mancini, whose voices blend beautifully."[13] The Vancouver Sun opined: "Blasting open with zippy burst of harmonies and a driving beat, Fuzzy fills out more space than the cuddle-core movement and its diametric opposite: riot-grrl thrust."[10] The New York Daily News thought that Mancini "boasts an appealingly impish sound, while her band specializes in dinky alternative-pop."[14] The Boston Herald included Electric Juices on its list of the 10 best albums of 1996.[15]
AllMusic wrote that "'Someday' and 'Christmas' are the only tracks that have the ambition to be more than just sunny mid-tempo rockers, but their impact is reduced by the sedated state of mindless comfort listeners are placed into over the course of the first nine songs."[8]
