Just a Souvenir

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Just a Souvenir
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Studio album by
Released27 October 2008
Genre
Length44:26
Label Warp
Producer Tom Jenkinson
Squarepusher chronology
Hello Everything
(2006)
Just a Souvenir
(2008)
Numbers Lucent
(2009)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 66/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [5]
PopMatters 7/10 [6]

Just a Souvenir is the ninth album by Squarepusher, released in October 2008. [7]

Contents

The album originated in a daydream, in which Tom Jenkinson envisioned a rock band performing a concert against the backdrop of a large, glowing coathanger. The performance quickly became surreal: among other things, a river forces the band to kayak whilst performing; the guitarist is able to accelerate or decelerate time at will; and every drum in the drummer's kit begins to switch places with each another. [8] As such, the majority of the album consists of Jenkinson's own version of jazz fusion, threaded through with classical guitar, math rock and funk recordings.

Track listing

Just a Souvenir track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Star Time 2"5:02
2."The Coathanger"4:03
3."Open Society"1:04
4."A Real Woman"3:04
5."Delta-V"4:08
6."Aqueduct"1:38
7."Potential Govaner"2:11
8."Planet Gear"4:03
9."Tensor in Green"3:42
10."The Glass Road"7:10
11."Fluxgate"1:08
12."Duotone Moonbeam"2:27
13."Quadrature"3:20
14."Yes Sequitur"1:27

Charts

Chart performance for Just a Souvenir
Chart (2008)Peak
position
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [9] 5
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [10] 30

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