Cibo Matto (EP)

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Cibo Matto
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ReleasedDecember 14, 1995
Genre Rock, trip hop
Label El Diablo
Cibo Matto chronology
Cibo Matto
(1995)
Viva! La Woman
(1996)
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Cibo Matto is the debut EP by Cibo Matto released in 1995.

Three tracks from this release were later included in the group's debut full-length album with slightly different arrangements (substantially in the case of "Know Your Chicken") and cleaner, better-produced vocal takes. The EP also features a cover of alternative rock band Soundgarden's 1994 song "Black Hole Sun", which Allmusic describes as "a wonderfully loopy cover... rearranged like a lounge favorite and sung in French". [2]

The final track, the instrumental "Crumbs" would later appear on the group's second EP, 1997's Super Relax .

In Japan the album sold 20,000 copies. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Beef Jerky"
  2. "Birthday Cake"
  3. "Know Your Chicken"
  4. "Black Hole Sun" (Soundgarden)
  5. "Crumbs"

Notes

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Cibo Matto (EP) - Cibo Matto". Allmusic . Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  3. "Billboard". May 1999.


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