Plat du Jour
Plat du Jour | ||||
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Studio album by Matthew Herbert | ||||
Released | 8 August 2005 (2005-08-08) | |||
Genre | Electronic | |||
Length | 59:42 | |||
Label | Accidental Records | |||
Producer | Matthew Herbert | |||
Matthew Herbert chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 73/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Exclaim! | favorable[2] |
The Guardian | favorable[3] |
Pitchfork | 6.1/10[4] |
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Stylus Magazine | A−[6] |
Plat du Jour is a studio album by British electronic musician Matthew Herbert. It was released on Accidental Records in 2005.[5] The album was created using the sounds of food preparation and production.[6] "Celebrity" features a vocal contribution from Dani Siciliano.[2]
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Plat du Jour received an average score of 73% based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]
Tim O'Neil of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying, "the juxtaposition of Herbert's precise, seemingly innocent and light-hearted rhythms with heavier themes of economic exploitation and death creates an effective and practical dialectic."[5] Rob Woo of Exclaim! called it "one of the most bizarre concept albums to date".[2]
The Wire listed the album on their "2005 Rewind" list.[7]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Truncated Life of a Modern Industrialised Chicken" | 7:41 |
2. | "These Branded Waters" | 5:28 |
3. | "Pigs in Shit" | 0:19 |
4. | "An Empire of Coffee" | 7:04 |
5. | "Celebrity" | 4:05 |
6. | "Sugar" | 5:50 |
7. | "An Apple a Day..." | 1:32 |
8. | "White Bread, Brown Bread" | 4:08 |
9. | "Fatter, Slimmer, Faster, Slower" | 3:58 |
10. | "The Final Meal of Stacey Lawton" | 5:38 |
11. | "The Nine Seeds of Navdanya" | 4:15 |
12. | "Waste Land" | 6:03 |
13. | "Nigella, George, Tony and Me" | 3:47 |
References
- ^ a b "Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ a b c Woo, Rob (September 1, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Exclaim!. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ Empire, Kitty (July 10, 2005). "Matthew Herbert, Plat du Jour". The Guardian. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ Richardson, Mark (August 4, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ a b c O'Neil, Tim (January 5, 2006). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". PopMatters. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ a b Siegel, Jeff (July 25, 2005). "Matthew Herbert – Plat Du Jour". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ "2005 Rewind". The Wire. December 2007. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
External links
- Plat du Jour at Discogs (list of releases)
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- Plat du Jour (2005)
- Around the House (1998)
- Bodily Functions (2001)
- Secondhand Sounds (2002)
- Scale (2006)
- The Shakes (2015)
- Goodbye Swingtime (2003)
- There's Me and There's You (2008)