Hydrophonic is the fourth and final studio album from The Soup Dragons

The Soup Dragons

The Soup Dragons were a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Named after a character in the 1970s children's television show Clangers, the group is best known for its cover of the Rolling Stones' song "I'm Free."-History:...

. 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

Bootsy Collins

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, Lynval Golding

Lynval Golding

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, Neville Staples

Neville Staples

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, Tina Weymouth

Tina Weymouth

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, The Kick Horns and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

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

Hotwired

Hotwired is the third studio album from The Soup Dragons. Recorded in 1991 and 1992 at Livingston Studios and Advision Brighton, it was released April 21, 1992....

, and want to hear more, this is an extremely worthwhile place to go." 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".

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

The High Fidelity

The High Fidelity are a British rock band, formed in 1995 by Sean Dickson, formerly of The Soup Dragons.-History:Dickson started the group when High Times magazine asked him to record a track for a cannabis-themed covers compilation album, Hempilation: Freedom Is NORML...

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Track listing

All songs written by Sean Dickson.

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)