Bread and Jam for Frances
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{{Infobox album
| name = Bread and Jam for Frances
| type = studio
| artist = Switchblade Symphony
| cover = Breadjamfrancesalbum.jpg
| released = September 16, 1997
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| genre = {{hlist|Trip hop|dark wave}}
| label = Cleopatra Records
| producer = Switchblade Symphony
| prev_title = Scrapbook
| prev_year = 1997
| year = 1997
| next_title = The Three Calamities
| next_year = 1999
}}
Bread and Jam for Frances is the second studio album by Switchblade Symphony. It was recorded at Brilliant Studios in San Francisco and Private Island Trax in Hollywood and mastered at Private Island Trax. The original CD artwork erroneously listed 15 tracks, with "Harpsichord" at track 7, though that song was not on the CD and later pressings corrected the error. The positions of "Dirty Dog" and "roller Coaster" are also switched.{{cite web|title=Discogs: Switchblade Symphony-Bread and Jam for Frances|website=Discogs |url=http://www.discogs.com/Switchblade-Symphony-Bread-And-Jam-For-Frances/release/1088029|accessdate=2011-06-27}} The album peaked at #119 on the CMJ Radio Top 200.{{cite journal |last1=Helms |first1=Colin |title=CMJ Radio Top 200 |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=22 December 1997 |volume=52 |issue=550 |pages=5–6 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1997/CMJ-New-Music-Report-1997-12-22.pdf|access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=Great Neck, NY |issn=0890-0795}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/bread-and-jam-for-frances-mw0000028182|title=Switchblade Symphony - Bread and Jam for Frances|last=Carlson|first=Dean|website=AllMusic}}
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Dean Carlson for AllMusic praised the album for taking the "darkwave pretensions of Switchblade Symphony's previous material and pushed it through an even more stylized electronic filter."
Mark Jenkins for the Washington Post said the album sounded similar to Siouxie and the Banshees but praised the instrumentals of Susan Wallace, nothing that "She incorporates hip-hop scratching, industrial rhythms and found sound into the band's music, giving tracks like "Roller Coaster" and "Harpsichord" a clattering vitality that belies their voice-from-the-grave ambience."{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/11/14/switchblade-symphony-bread-and-jam-for-frances-cleopatra/98326724-c55d-4883-b506-53d8efbcc7b1/|newspaper=The Washington Post|last=Jenkins|first=Mark|title=SWITCHBLADE SYMPHONY "BREAD AND JAM FOR FRANCES" CLEOPATRA|date=1997-11-14}}
Track listing
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| title2 = Dirty Dog
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| title14 = Episode G 15
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References
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