Around the House | ||||
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Released | 27 July 1998 | |||
Recorded | January 1997–April 1998 | |||
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Length | 73:50 | |||
Label | Phonography | |||
Producer | Herbert | |||
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Around the House is a 1998 studio album by British electronic musician Herbert. It is an electroacoustic album using "samples of washing machines, toasters and toothbrushes, processed into swinging grooves".[1]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Muzik | [3] |
Pitchfork | 8.7/10[4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
John Bush of AllMusic deemed Around the House "much more suited to straight-ahead dance music than Herbert's previous work" and stated that Herbert "proves quite adept" at creating backing music for the album's featured vocalist Dani Siciliano.[2] Pitchfork reviewer Mark Richardson described Around the House as "a bit more focused on sound than song" compared to its 2001 follow-up Bodily Functions; while finding Bodily Functions a stronger album, he admitted that "this could well be a matter of which record I heard first" and concluded, "Both albums are loaded with music of exceptionally high quality."[4]
Around the House was named the 96th greatest album of the 1990s by Pitchfork.[6]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | Untitled | M. Herbert | 0:52 |
2. | "So Now..." | M. Herbert, D. Siciliano | 5:41 |
3. | "Around the House" | M. Herbert | 4:34 |
4. | "Close to Me" | M. Herbert | 6:37 |
5. | "The Last Beat" | M. Herbert | 5:27 |
6. | "Going Round" | M. Herbert, D. Siciliano | 6:55 |
7. | "This Time" | M. Herbert, D. Siciliano | 8:04 |
8. | "We Still Have (The Music)" | M. Herbert, D. Siciliano | 6:27 |
9. | "In the Kitchen" | M. Herbert, R. Vine | 12:12 |
10. | "Never Give Up" | M. Herbert | 11:43 |
11. | "We Go Wrong" | M. Herbert | 5:11 |
Credits adapted from liner notes.