| Hot Chocolate Massage | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Tiny Lights |
| Cover: | Tiny Lights - Hot Chocolate Massage.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Folk rock |
| Length: | 66:42 |
| Label: | Absolute A Go Go |
| Producer: | John Hamilton |
| Prev Title: | Hazel's Wreath |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Stop the Sun, I Want to Go Home |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Hot Chocolate Massage is an album by the folk rock band Tiny Lights, released in 1990 by Absolute A Go Go Records.[1] [2] Jane Scarpantoni played cello on the album.[3] "Wave" was a minor hit on college radio stations.[4]
Trouser Press felt that extensive touring had given the band "muscle and maturity" and noted the overall live feeling of the album.[5] The AllMusic critic Jason Ankeny criticized the album for lacking focus because of excessive experimentation. Despite this he gave it four and a half out of five stars, calling the high points of Hot Chocolate Massage "sublime" and "daring and eclectic." Option wrote that "there's a wonderful sense of energy and daring to this LP that, more than a lot of current bands, brings the spirit of '60s experimental groups like the Insect Trust and the Ultimate Spinach to mind."[6]