Plat du Jour

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Plat du Jour
Studio album by
Matthew Herbert
Released8 August 2005 (2005-08-08)
Genre Electronic
Length59:42
Label Accidental Records
Producer Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert chronology
Plat du Jour: The Appetiser EP
(2005)		Plat du Jour
(2005)		Score
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim! favorable [2]
The Guardian favorable [3]
Pitchfork 6.1/10 [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Stylus Magazine A− [6]

Plat du Jour is a studio album by British electronic musician Matthew Herbert. It was released on Accidental Records in 2005. [5] The album was created using the sounds of food preparation and production. [6] "Celebrity" features a vocal contribution from Dani Siciliano. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Plat du Jour received an average score of 73% based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Tim O'Neil of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying, "the juxtaposition of Herbert's precise, seemingly innocent and light-hearted rhythms with heavier themes of economic exploitation and death creates an effective and practical dialectic." [5] Rob Woo of Exclaim! called it "one of the most bizarre concept albums to date". [2]

The Wire listed the album on their "2005 Rewind" list. [7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Truncated Life of a Modern Industrialised Chicken"7:41
2."These Branded Waters"5:28
3."Pigs in Shit"0:19
4."An Empire of Coffee"7:04
5."Celebrity"4:05
6."Sugar"5:50
7."An Apple a Day..."1:32
8."White Bread, Brown Bread"4:08
9."Fatter, Slimmer, Faster, Slower"3:58
10."The Final Meal of Stacey Lawton"5:38
11."The Nine Seeds of Navdanya"4:15
12."Waste Land"6:03
13."Nigella, George, Tony and Me"3:47

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References

  1. 1 2 "Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Woo, Rob (September 1, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Exclaim! . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Empire, Kitty (July 10, 2005). "Matthew Herbert, Plat du Jour". The Guardian . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Richardson, Mark (August 4, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Pitchfork . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 O'Neil, Tim (January 5, 2006). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". PopMatters . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Siegel, Jeff (July 25, 2005). "Matthew Herbert – Plat Du Jour". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ "2005 Rewind". The Wire . December 2007. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
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