Schizophonic!
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Lounge | |||
| Label | Sub Pop | |||
| Producer | Combustible Edison, Brian Capouch | |||
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Schizophonic! is an album by the American lounge band Combustible Edison, released in 1996.[1][2]
The album was produced by the band and Brian Capouch.[3] All five band members contributed to the songwriting.[4] "Morticia" is a cover of the Addams Family tune, composed by Vic Mizzy.[5] 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.[6]
Critical reception
CMJ New Music Monthly deemed the album "a musical pastiche, but just as suave and easy to listen to as its precursors."[5] 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."[9] The Waikato Times wrote that "Combustible Edison are more bizarre than banal."[12] 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."[7] (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."[10]
