{{For|the comic book story arc|The Wicked + The Divine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Commercial Suicide | type = studio | artist = [[Colin Newman]] | cover = Commercial Suicide.jpeg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1986}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Chamber Pop|Chamber pop]], [[art pop]], [[minimal wave]] | length = 41:54 | label = [[Crammed Discs]] | producer = Colin Newman | prev_title = [[Not To]] | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = [[It Seems]] | next_year = 1988 }}
'''''Commercial Suicide''''' is the fourth studio album by English musician [[Colin Newman]], released in 1986 by record label [[Crammed Discs]].
A massive change in style for Newman, ''Commercial Suicide'' is reflective and highly orchestrated. His next LP, ''[[It Seems]]'', followed a similar path, albeit with far more use of [[music sequencer|sequencer]]s – something Newman would continue to work with for a number of years. Both ''Commercial Suicide'' and ''It Seems'' featured [[Malka Spigel]], who married Newman in 1986, and who has been included in all subsequent solo and collaborative work.<ref name = "AllMusic_bio">{{AllMusic |class= |id=colin-newman-mn0000113424 |tab= |title= Colin Newman |last= Neate |first= Wilson |author= |access-date=2021-05-31 }}</ref>
== Reception == {{album ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=AllMusic_ComSuiReview>{{AllMusic |class= |id=commercial-suicide-mw0000650559 |tab= |title= Commercial Suicide – Colin Newman |last= Neate |first= Wilson |author= |access-date=2021-05-31 }}</ref> }}
The album received positive reviews. ''[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]]'' called it "an unmitigated delight: a complex, consoling, literate pop classic",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/03/lost-and-found-colin-newmans-commercial-suicide-1986/ |title=Lost and Found: Colin Newman's ''Commercial Suicide'' – Fact Magazine: Music News, New Music. |last=Sande |first=Kiran |date=February 3, 2013 |website=[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]] |accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> going on to rank it the 69th best album of the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/24/the-100-best-albums-of-the-1980s-100-81/33/ |title=The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: 69: Colin Newman, ''Commercial Suicide'' |last= |first= |date=2013-06-24 |website=[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]] |accessdate=2021-06-01}}</ref> Wilson Neate of [[AllMusic]] wrote that the album "approaches listeners in a more subtle, measured fashion, its sound often deliberate and spacious, at times recalling the abstract textures of ''[[Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish|Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish]]'' (1981). That's not to say this album lacks a pop sensibility." He went on to write that it "prefigure[s] [...] the deconstructed symphonic pop done so well by [[Blur (band)|Blur]]."<ref name=AllMusic_ComSuiReview/> [[Jim Derogatis]] and Wilson Neate, writing in ''[[Trouser Press]]'', said that ''Commercial Suicide'' combined Newman's "ambient and pop interests by bringing a more spacious, minimalist approach to vocal-driven tunes."<ref name = "Trouser">{{cite web |url= https://trouserpress.com/reviews/wire/ |title=TrouserPress.com :: Wire |last1= DeRogatis |first1=Jim |last2=Neate |first2=Wilson |website=[[Trouser Press|TrouserPress.com]] |accessdate=2021-05-31}}</ref>
== Track listing ==
#"Their Terrain" - 5:01 #"2-Sixes" - 5:17 #"Metarkest" - 5:12 #"But I..." - 4:53 #"Commercial Suicide" - 4:02 #"I'm Still Here" - 3:47 #"Feigned Hearing" - 4:02 #"Can I Explain The Delay?" - 4:55 #"I Can Hear Your..." - 4:46
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{Discogs master|59026|Commercial Suicide}}
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