Peng!

Peng!
Studio album by Stereolab
Released 26 May 1992 (1992-05-26)
Recorded April 1992
Genre
Length 47:47
Label
Producer
  • Robbs
  • Stereolab
Stereolab chronology
Super-Electric
(1991)
Peng!
(1992)
Low Fi
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Pitchfork4.8/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide6/10[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 written by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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 Baudelaire3:51
10."Stomach Worm" 6:35
11."Surrealchemist" 7:13
Total length:47:47

Personnel

Credits for Peng! adapted from album liner notes.[7]

Stereolab

Production

  • Roger Askew – engineering
  • Robbs – engineering, mixing, production
  • Stereolab – mixing, production

References

  1. Phares, Heather. "Peng! – Stereolab". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  3. Schreiber, Ryan. "Stereolab: Peng!". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  4. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Stereolab". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 779–81. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  6. "The intriguing origins of 'Cliff', the cartoon character that's all over Stereolab's early album art".
  7. Peng! (liner notes). Stereolab. Too Pure. 1992. PURE CD 11.
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