Astronauts & Heretics by Thomas Dolby

Personnel: Thomas Dolby (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, programming); Eddi Reader (vocals); Larry Treadwell, Jon E. Love, Tommy Gutman Sanchez (guitar); Al Tharp (banjo, background vocals); Jimmy Z (saxophone); Wayne Toups (accordion, background vocals); Jimmy Breaux (accordion); Terry Jackson, Matthew Seligman, Leland Sklar (bass); Budgie, David Owens (drums); Rafael Padilla (percussion); Suzanne Malline, Cynthia Moliere, Teresita Alsander, Mr. Pits, Loz Netto, Marcus Wallis, Laura Creamer, Mike Kapitan (background vocals). 1992's ASTRONAUTS AND HERETICS was something of a comeback album for Thomas Dolby. In the eight years since his quietly excellent second album, THE FLAT EARTH, Dolby had released only a surprisingly disappointing collaboration with George Clinton under the name Dolby's Cube, and a substandard experiment in techno-funk, 1988's ALIENS ATE MY BUICK. Though ASTRONAUTS AND HERETICS is credited to the same band, The Lost Toy People, as ALIENS, it gets off on the good foot, return... Minimize