Peng!
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| Pitchfork | 4.8/10[3] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 6/10[5] |
Peng! is the debut studio album by English-French avant-pop band Stereolab. It was released on 26 May 1992 in the United Kingdom by Too Pure and in the United States by American Recordings.
The cover art and album title (a German onomatopoeia for a loud pop or bang) is derived from a cartoon called "der tödliche finger" that appeared in a 1970 issue of Hotcha, a Swiss underground newspaper.[6] Different panels of the same cartoon were adapted into cover art for other early Stereolab albums.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Super Falling Star" | 3:16 | |
| 2. | "Orgiastic" | 4:44 | |
| 3. | "Peng! 33" | 3:03 | |
| 4. | "K-Stars" | 4:04 | |
| 5. | "Perversion" | 5:01 | |
| 6. | "You Little Shits" | 3:25 | |
| 7. | "The Seeming and the Meaning" | 3:48 | |
| 8. | "Mellotron" | 2:47 | |
| 9. | "Enivrez-vous" | Charles Baudelaire | 3:51 |
| 10. | "Stomach Worm" | 6:35 | |
| 11. | "Surrealchemist" | 7:13 | |
| Total length: | 47:47 | ||
Personnel
Credits for Peng! adapted from album liner notes.[7]
Stereolab
- Lætitia Sadier – vocals, Moog synthesiser
- Tim Gane – guitar, Farfisa organ, Moog synthesiser
- Joe Dilworth – drums
- Martin Kean – bass
Production
- Roger Askew – engineering
- Robbs – engineering, mixing, production
- Stereolab – mixing, production
References
- ^ Phares, Heather. "Peng! – Stereolab". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
- ^ Schreiber, Ryan. "Stereolab: Peng!". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Sarig, Roni (2004). "Stereolab". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 779–81. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
- ^ "The intriguing origins of 'Cliff', the cartoon character that's all over Stereolab's early album art".
- ^ Peng! (liner notes). Stereolab. Too Pure. 1992. PURE CD 11.
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External links
- Peng! at official Stereolab website
- Peng! at Discogs (list of releases)
- Peng! at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
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