Hydrophonic (Soup Dragons album)

Hydrophonic is the fourth and final studio album from The Soup Dragons. By this stage, lead singer Sean Dickson was the only original member of the band, working with a variety of session musicians including Bootsy Collins, Lynval Golding, Neville Staples, Tina Weymouth, The Kick Horns and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Hydrophonic
Studio album by The Soup Dragons
Released	April 1994
Recorded	Homegrown Studios and CaVa Studios, Glasgow
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	63:21
Label	Polygram
Producer	Sean Dickson
The Soup Dragons chronology
Hotwired (1992) Hydrophonic (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

It was released in 1994 to weak sales and generally apathetic or poor reviews. Jason Damas's AllMusic review has since claimed that this was an injustice and that "if you liked the more rocking parts of Hotwired, and want to hear more, this is an extremely worthwhile place to go."[1] Trouserpress was contrastingly dismissive, called the album a "soggy hodgepodge of lunkheaded rock, would-be hip-hop, blues, soulful backing vocals and chants" and advised readers to "flush it".[2]

Following the disappointing sales of the album, Dickson ended the Soup Dragons and went on to form The High Fidelity.[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Sean Dickson.[4]

1. "One Way Street" (4:00)
2. "Don't Get Down (Get Down)" (5:05)
3. "Do You Care?" (3:20)
4. "May the Force Be with You" (4:31)
5. "Contact High" (3:43)
6. "All Messed Up" (3:39)
7. "The Time Is Now" (4:52)
8. "Freeway" (4:19)
9. "Rest in Peace" (5:42)
10. "JF Junkie" (4:34)
11. "Automatic Speed Queen" (3:23)
12. "Out of Here" (3:37)
13. "Motherfunker" (6:52)
14. "Black and Blues" (4:47)
15. "Hypersonic" (0:54)

References

1. Hydrophonic at AllMusic
2. Trouserpress review
3. Soup Dragons biography at AllMusic
4. Amazon reviews and track listing