Plat du Jour

Plat du Jour
Studio album by Matthew Herbert
Released August 8, 2005 (2005-08-08)
Genre Electronic
Length 59:42
Label Accidental Records
Producer Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert chronology
Plat du Jour: The Appetiser EP
(2005)		 Plat du Jour
(2005)		 Score
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim!favorable[2]
The Guardianfavorable[3]
Pitchfork Media6.1/10[4]
PopMatters[5]
Stylus MagazineA-[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]

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]

Track listing

No. Title Length
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

  1. 1 2 "Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Woo, Rob (September 1, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Exclaim!. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Empire, Kitty (July 10, 2005). "Matthew Herbert, Plat du Jour". The Guardian. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Richardson, Mark (August 4, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 O'Neil, Tim (January 5, 2006). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". PopMatters. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Siegel, Jeff (July 25, 2005). "Matthew Herbert – Plat Du Jour". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved December 9, 2015.

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