Plat du Jour | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 8 August 2005 | |||
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] |
PopMatters | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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]
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]
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 |
Plat du Jour | ||||
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![]() | ||||
Studio album by | ||||
Released | 8 August 2005 | |||
Genre | Electronic | |||
Length | 59:42 | |||
Label | Accidental Records | |||
Producer | Matthew Herbert | |||
Matthew Herbert chronology | ||||
|
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 73/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Exclaim! | favorable [2] |
The Guardian | favorable [3] |
Pitchfork | 6.1/10 [4] |
PopMatters | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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]
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]
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 |