title: Hazel (album)
text: # Hazel (album)
  
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  Hazel is an album by the experimental rock band Red Krayola, released in 1996 by Drag City.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  The Austin Chronicle wrote that "although a lot of Hazel is presented in a cut-and-paste carnival of strange narratives, short bursts of guitar/synthesizer, and bold U-turns galore, songs like 'I'm So Blasé' and 'Larking' capture the same infinite pop energy Chris Bell once reigned in." Magnet wrote that it possessed "a leaner, more subtle weirdness than previous records."
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Werner Büttner
  * Michael Baldwin
  * David Grubbs
  * George Hurley
  * Lynn Johnston
  * Hei Han Khiang
  * John McEntire
  * Albert Oehlen
  * Jim O'Rourke
  * Stephen Prina
  * Elisa Randazzo
  * Mary Lass Stewart
  * Mayo Thompson
  * Tom Watson
  * Christopher Williams
  