title: Commercial Suicide
text: # Commercial Suicide
  
  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 sequencers – 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.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
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  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  
  The album received positive reviews. Fact called it "an unmitigated delight: a complex, consoling, literate pop classic", going on to rank it the 69th best album of the 1980s. 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 (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." 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."
  
  ## 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
  