| Bengali Bantam Youth Experience! | ||||
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| Released | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Trance rock [1] | |||
| Length | 41:31 | |||
| Label | Warner Music UK | |||
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Bengali Bantam Youth Experience! is an album by the English band Black Star Liner, released in 1999. [2] [3] "Superfly and Bindi" was released as a single and peaked at No. 78 on the UK Singles Chart. [4] [5] The album was nominated for the 1999 Mercury Music Prize. [6] The band supported the album with a UK tour. [7]
The album's sound was in part influenced by the music preferences of vocalist Choque Hosein's international relatives. [8] He was skeptical of being lumped in with the Asian Underground movement, although noted the increased attention. [9] Many of the songs are instrumentals that employ sitars and tablas. [10] [11] "Silvini" uses Yorkshire dialect to lampoon England's fascination with Indian culture. [12] "Low BMW" is about the automotive preference of many English Indians. [13] "Pink Rupee" concerns gay life in Asian society. [14]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Birmingham Post |   [15] |
| Calgary Herald |  [10] |
| The Gazette | 8/10 [11] |
The Independent noted that "the band derives most of its idiosyncratic character ... from the Indian-Trinidadian vocalist Choque Hossein, whose declamatory toasting style is in the tradition of Bo Diddley and Beefheart and Big Youth: loud and enigmatic and often funny, too." [1] Music Week said that the album "features brief bursts of history-informed rock cross-pollinated with Eastern sounds and Choque's upfront personality." [16] The Observer opined that "at their best, their instrumentals evoke the urban tension of Massive Attack and the Specials' 'Ghost Town'." [17] The Guardian stated that "nobody has ever sounded like this, principally because Kraftwerk weren't born in New Delhi and the Future Sound of London never left their studio." [12]
In 2024, Uncut placed the album at No. 465 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of the 1990s". [18]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sita D" | 3:36 |
| 2. | "Swimmer" | 4:43 |
| 3. | "Low BMW" | 2:28 |
| 4. | "Gurdeep's Yellow Funk" | 4:06 |
| 5. | "Superfly and Bindi" | 3:47 |
| 6. | "Pink Rupee" | 3:14 |
| 7. | "Ethnic Suicide of the Volga Boatmen" | 3:58 |
| 8. | "Inder Automatic" | 3:39 |
| 9. | "Khaatoon" | 3:06 |
| 10. | "Silvini" | 3:33 |
| 11. | "Dark Shadow" | 3:04 |
| 12. | "Intafada Powder Line" | 2:17 |
| Total length: | 41:31 | |
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