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| Released | October 2001 | |||
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| Label | International DeeJay Gigolo | |||
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First Album is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Miss Kittin &The Hacker,released in 2001. It includes the tracks "1982" and "Frank Sinatra",two anthems of the late-1990s electroclash scene that had been first released on the EP Champagne (1998). [1] [2]
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| Exclaim! | Favorable link |
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The album received generally favorable reviews. It earned a collective score of 68 out of 100 from Metacritic. [4] Adam Bregman from Allmusic commented,"This French-Swiss duo pumps out retro-'80s-style disco beats and silly lyrics,creating a fun,goofy,ironic vibe [...] They seem to be trying to reach over and above that generally stale genre,and they mostly succeed." [5]
Fact placed First Album at number 92 on its "100 best:Albums of the Decade" list. [6] Mixer placed First Album at number five on its "Best Albums of 2002" list. [7] Muzik placed it at number 15 on its list of the "Top 30 Albums of 2001". [8] Resident Advisor ranked the album number 94 on its list of the "Top 100 albums of the 2000s". [9]
Despite not charting,First Album sold over 50,000 copies worldwide. [10]
All lyrics are written by Miss Kittin; all music is composed by The Hacker.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Life on MTV" | 4:22 |
| 2. | "Frank Sinatra" | 3:53 |
| 3. | "Walk On By" | 5:04 |
| 4. | "1982" | 5:17 |
| 5. | "Stock Exchange" | 5:22 |
| 6. | "You and Us" | 4:25 |
| 7. | "Flexibility" | 6:25 |
| 8. | "L'homme dans l'ombre" | 4:15 |
| 9. | "Slow Track" | 2:55 |
| 10. | "Nurse" | 5:13 |
| 11. | "Stripper" | 4:57 |
| 12. | "DJ Song" | 3:03 |
| 13. | "Walking in the Sunshine" | 5:14 |
| 14. | "Frank Sinatra (2001)" | 4:53 |
| 15. | "The Beach" | 4:41 |