Smoke Machine (album)

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Smoke Machine
Studio album by
Chocolate USA
Released1994
GenreIndie rock
LabelBar/None Records
Chocolate USA chronology
All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today
(1992) 		Smoke Machine
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[1]

Smoke Machine is the second and final album by Chocolate USA.[2] It was released in 1994 on Bar/None Records.[3]

The band, always more a project of Julian Koster, broke up after the release of the album. Smoke Machine contains some of Bill Doss's earliest recorded performances.[4]

Critical reception[]

AllMusic wrote: "While every melody and song is catchy as hell, and although Kostner's vocals are tender, this is pop music at its most exploratory without aspiring to (yet not sacrificing) accessibility. The whole of it is unselfconscious brilliance."[1] Trouser Press also praised it, and wrote that it "retains the determinedly unpretentious vibe of the first album, but the songwriting and arrangements are surer and more fully realized."[2]

Track listing[]

  1. USA: Milkiest Theme
  2. Bookbag
  3. My Cherry Bomb
  4. Another Lego In Tha Cross
  5. (Unlisted Track)
  6. The Boy Who Stuck His Head In The Dryer (And Whirl'd Round N' Round)
  7. Intermission
  8. Playing In The Mud
  9. Ugly Girl
  10. Milk (Theme)
  11. Isn't A Lie.../Glow Worm
  12. We Stole The Cow
  13. (Bonus Tracks From Chocolate Monthly Tapes)

Personnel[]

  • Bill Doss - "multi instruments"
  • Julian Koster - vocals, guitar, bass, piano, drums, viola, concertina
  • Liza Wakeman - violin

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b https://www.allmusic.com/album/smoke-machine-mw0000118249
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Chocolate USA".
  3. ^ "Who's Counting?". The Stranger.
  4. ^ "The Story Of Elephant 6's Bill Doss, Told In 10 Songs". October 4, 2012.


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