Closed Captioned Radio by The Bogmen

Closed Captioned Radio, released in 1998, was the second album from the Bogmen, the Long Island band built around Billy Campion, Bill Ryan and Brendan Ryan. Bill Laswell and Godfrey Diamond produced it alongside the band, and the result is a strange, restless trip that doesn't sit still for a second.

Billboard heard decadent, dissonant David Bowie in it along with old Berlin cabaret, while other critics were thrown by how much ground it covered: flutes and echoing, triumphant chants on one track, electronic beats, clanging noise and distorted instruments on the next. "Mexico" led off as the first single. It sold only around 10,000 copies, and the band broke up after its release, with alcoholism part of the reason.

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