finally got it right. We got the order of songs down, and spent a lot of time honing it and making it an emotional journey. We wanted the listener to be completely moved and left breathless by the music." In another interview, he called it "the first record where we actually had our heads together well enough—and a had a sense of who we were, enough—to try to control it." This approach appeared to succeed, drawing positive commentary from critics. AllMusic.com called the album a "melodically complex and romantic pop masterpiece," and "an album so steeped in worshipping beauty that no amount of criticism—positive or negative-—can mangle or tarnish its crystalline brilliance." In spite of the warm reception, Lulu was another disappointment in terms of sales, moving 60,000 copies. Volt After assembling a demo for a proposed fifth album of cover songs, A&M approached their promotions department, whose response upon hearing the album was "What do we do with this?" according to Munson. The label then dropped the band; the covers album was released by Twin/Tone as Volt in 1992. Trip Shakespeare's commercial failure has been attributed to the band's poor timing: "1991 was the great embrasure of the grunge movement when Nirvana's Nevermind set the decade-long trend for the popular music charts," wrote AllMusic.com. "The release of a melodically complex and romantic pop masterpiece with lush vocals was entertained by neither the critics nor the masses." Wayne Isaak, the head of A&M's New York office, put it, "Trip Shakespeare is too pop to catch on as an alternative band; the alternative scene is very cliquish." Breakup The band broke up shortly after the release of Lulu. The Wilson brothers and Munson continue to play together in various projects. Matt Wilson joined various Minneapolis bands. Munson and Matt Wilson performed as The Flops, later renamed The Twilight Hours; Matt Wilson contributed some vocals and synthesizer work to Semisonic's All About Chemistry album; Matt Wilson joined Semisonic on December 12 and 13, 2003 to play a set of Trip Shakespeare favorites for sold-out crowds at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Munson and both Wilsons reunited in October 2010 to perform for a benefit concert. Dan Wilson and John Munson joined Jacob Slichter to form Pleasure, which was later named Semisonic, Elaine Harris returned to the Boston area and had not been involved in any post-Trip Shakespeare events until The New Standards' December