Smoke Machine is the second and final album by Chocolate USA.

[3][4] The band, always more a project of Julian Koster, broke up after the release of the album.

Smoke Machine contains some of Bill Doss's earliest recorded performances.

[5] AllMusic wrote: "While every melody and song is catchy as hell, and although Kostner's vocals are tender, this is pop music at its most exploratory without aspiring to (yet not sacrificing) accessibility.

"[1] Trouser Press also praised it, and wrote that it "retains the determinedly unpretentious vibe of the first album, but the songwriting and arrangements are surer and more fully realized.