Chocolate & Cheese

Album Summary

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Chocolate and Cheese is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Ween, first released on September 27, 1994, through Elektra Records. It was the first Ween album to be recorded in a professional studio, in contrast to the four-track home recordings of The Pod and Pure Guava. However, most of the instruments were still played by Dean and Gene Ween, including their drum machine. After self-producing their previous album, Pure Guava (1992), the band reunited with Andrew Weiss to produce the album. Its broad sound has been described as "genre-hopping", prominently featuring styles of music including psychedelia, country, funk, industrial, and Latin music. Chocolate and Cheese was supported by the singles "I Can't Put My Finger on It", "Freedom of '76", and "Voodoo Lady". Though the album did not perform well commercially, it received positive reviews and has been recognized as one of Ween's signature albums. It received a 30th anniversary deluxe edition re-release on August 2, 2024. The album has elements of styles such as circus music, country, folk rock, funk metal, industrial music, jazz, Latin music, lounge music, noise rock, psychedelia, soft rock and synth-pop. It has been labelled as a "genre hopping" album due to its variety of styles, with this aspect of the album being further amplified on the 30th anniversary deluxe edition, which includes more songs. On their next album 12 Golden Country Greats (1996), the band intentionally decided to record an album in a single genre, before releasing The Mollusk in 1997, which was described as them going "back to genre hopping".