I Com

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I Com
Miss Kittin - I Com.png
Studio album by
Miss Kittin
Released31 May 2004
Genre
Length59:13
Label NovaMute
Producer
Miss Kittin chronology
Radio Caroline Volume 1
(2002)		I Com
(2004)		 Mixing Me
(2005)
Singles from I Com
  1. "Professional Distortion"
    Released: 17 May 2004
  2. "Requiem for a Hit"
    Released: 27 September 2004
  3. "Happy Violentine"
    Released: 14 February 2005

I Com is the debut studio album by French singer and DJ Miss Kittin, released on 31 May 2004 by NovaMute Records. It is Miss Kittin's first solo release, having previously released albums in collaboration with The Hacker and Golden Boy. As in her previous works, electro-funk and electroclash continue to be the primary genres.

Contents

Most of the tracks on the album were produced by Miss Kittin with either Thies Mynther and Tobi Neumann (producers of Chicks on Speed). House music vocalist L.A. Williams raps on the track "Requiem for a Hit", the album's second single.

Singles

"Professional Distortion" was released as the album's lead single on 17 May 2004. [1] It peaked at number 83 on the UK Singles Chart [2] and at number 77 on the French Singles Chart. [3]

The second single, "Requiem for a Hit", was released on 27 September 2004. [4] It peaked at number 92 on the UK Singles Chart [2] and at number six on the Belgian Dance Chart. [5]

"Happy Violentine" was released on 14 February 2005 as the third and final single. [6] It reached number 84 on the UK Singles Chart [2] and number nine on the Belgian Dance Chart. [7]

Promotion

Miss Kittin released the EP Mixing Me on 19 April 2005. The EP contains remixes of several I Com tracks such as its three singles. [8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [10]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [11]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [12]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [13]
Playlouder Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [14]
PopMatters Critical [15]
Spin C+ [16]
XLR8R Favorable [17]

I Com received generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 17 reviews. [9] Joseph Shoo of Drowned in Sound commented that I Com has the "sweet attitude of sheer independent energy" while containing "neural giddiness and cerebral edginess". [11] Likewise, Johnny Loftus of AllMusic described I Com as "the best bits and pieces of the post-everything genres have been rearranged in a newfangled data stream to represent Miss Kittin's very elusive, entirely accessible muse. The alluring result is cool, reloaded." [10] By contrast, Derek Miller of Pitchfork noted that "some of Kittin's lyrical deficits undercut her production." [13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Caroline Hervé, Tobias Neumann and Thies Mynther, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Professional Distortion" 3:42
2."Requiem for a Hit" 5:10
3."Happy Violentine" 6:18
4."Meet Sue Be She" 4:03
5."Kiss Factory" 4:37
6."Allergic" 5:26
7."Soundtrack of Now"
4:43
8."Dub About Me"
  • Michael Schmidt
  • Holger Zilske
7:10
9."Clone Me" 4:06
10."3eme Sexe"Dominique Nicolas Leteurtre5:00
11."I Come.com" 5:55
12."Neukölln 2" 3:03

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of I Com. [18]

Musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for I Com
Chart (2004)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [19] 79
Belgian Alternative Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [20] 43
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [21] 77
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [22] 82
French Albums (SNEP) [23] 56
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [24] 100
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [25] 82
UK Albums (OCC) [26] 171
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [27] 6
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [28] 18
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums ( Billboard ) [29] 13

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