| Schizophonic! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Combustible Edison |
| Cover: | Schizophonic!.jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Genre: | Lounge |
| Label: | Sub Pop |
| Producer: | Combustible Edison, Brian Capouch |
| Prev Title: | Four Rooms: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | The Impossible World |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
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. All five band members contributed to the songwriting.[3] "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.[4]
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."[6] 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." The Waikato Times wrote that "Combustible Edison are more bizarre than banal." 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.[7] [8]
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." (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."