Closed Captioned Radio | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | The Bogmen |
Cover: | Closed Captioned Radio.jpg |
Released: | 1998 |
Genre: | Alternative rock |
Label: | Arista[1] |
Producer: | Bill Laswell, Godfrey Diamond, The Bogmen |
Prev Title: | Life Begins at 40 Million |
Prev Year: | 1995 |
Closed Captioned Radio is the second album by the American alternative rock band the Bogmen, released in 1998.[2] [3] It sold around 10,000 copies.[4] The band broke up after its release, in part due to the effects of alcoholism.[5]
The album's first single was "Mexico".
The album was produced by Bill Laswell, Godfrey Diamond, and the band.[6] [7] [8]
Billboard determined that the album projects "a decadent, dissonant vibe reminiscent of David Bowie's late-'70s and early-'80s work, as well as of the cabaret music of 1920s Berlin."[9] The Austin American-Statesman thought that "this band is not an easy listen because they're so stylistically all-over-the-place that you never fall into the comfort zone that good pop music provides."[10] The San Diego Union-Tribune declared: "One moment, the music is a seamless blend of flute-filled melodies contrasted with electronic rhythms and triumphant, echoing chants; the next, all too bizarre noises, pounding drumbeats and distorted instruments beckon one to turn this Radio off (or shoot it)."
The Baltimore Sun stated that "the band's sound—mid-period David Bowie with a healthy dose of David Byrne—isn't quite like anything else out there." Newsday concluded that "like a latter-day Wall of Voodoo, The Bogmen layer poetry about everyday madness over quirky rhythms."[11] The Columbus Dispatch deemed the album "a melodic form of heavy metal resonant with faintly sinister themes ... Bill Laswell's production puts an added emphasis on the sextet's rhythm section."[12]
AllMusic wrote: "Influenced by such diverse global sources as Middle Eastern rhythms and Far East textures, the group's alt-rock aesthetic takes on intriguing new dimensions."